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Salh0t  0f  (Harr  Ifall 


THE   ENGLISH   ANCESTRY 

OF 

PETER  TALBOT 

OF 

DORCHESTER,  MASS. 


COMPILED  FOR 

EMILY  TALBOT  WALKER 

A  DESCENDANT  OF  PETER  TALBOT 

BY 

J.   GARDNER  BARTLETT 


PRIVATELY  PRINTED 

BOSTON,    MASS. 

1917 

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FOREWORD 

'And  if  his  name  be  George,  I'll  call  him  Peter." 

— King  John,  Act  1,  Scene  1. 


This  volume  presents  the  results  of  extensive  investigations 
made  in  England  and  America  by  the  compiler,  J.  Gardner 
Bartlett,  which,  it  is  claimed,  establish  the  identity  of  Peter 
Talbot,  the  early  New  England  colonist,  with  George  Talbot, 
son  of  the  George  Talbot  who  was  the  last  of  the  Talbots  of 
Carr  Hall,  Lan^a^ire,  England.  ^ 


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THE  TALBOT  PEDIGREE 

".     .     .    the  Talbot,  so  much  fear'd  abroad 
That  with  his  name  the  mothers  still  their  babes." 

—Henry  VI.,  PaH  i.  Act  2,  Scene  3. 

1.  LE  SIRE^  TALEBOT  is  among  the  names  inscribed  on 
the  "Roll  of  Battle  Abbey",  and  so  he  is  claimed  to  have  been 
among  the  Norman  knights  who  accompanied  William  the  Con- 
queror in  his  invasion  of  England  in  1066  and  fought  in  the 
momentous  battle  of  Hastings  or  Senlac.  On  this  battlefield  the 
Conqueror  later  founded  and  erected  a  vast  monastery,  as  a 
memorial  of  his  victory  and  as  a  chantry  for  his  companions, 
which  was  called  Battle  Abbey;  and  in  this  monastery  was  pre- 
served for  centuries  a  roll  of  several  hundred  names  of  his  prin- 
cipal followers.  There  has  been  much  controversy  as  to  the 
antiquity  and  authenticity  of  this  famous  roll;  but  in  the  main 
the  list  of  names  can  be  shown  to  be  correct  from  evidences 
contemporaneous  with  the  Conquest,  although  doubtless  some 
names  were  interpolated  at  a  period  many  generations  later. 
(See  "The  Battle  Abbey  Roll"  by  the  Duchess  of  Cleveland, 
vol.  1,  p.  V.  and  vol.  3,  p.  164;  also  "The  Roll  of  Battle  Abbey" 
in  the  "New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register", 
vol.  2,  p.  35.) 

It  is  thought  by  some  writers  that  the  Talebots  were  derived 
from  a  junior  line  of  the  Comtes  d'Eu  in  Normandy,  as  the  coat 
of  arms  of  this  noble  house  {barry  of  ten)  was  similar  to  that 
originally  borne  by  the  early  Talebots  in  England  (bendy  of  ten). 
Furthermore,  the  Talebot  name  is  first  found  on  record  in  con- 
nection with  Eu  and  vicinity  in  Normandy.  As  early  as  1035 
Hugh  Talebot  and  Gilbert,  Comte  d'Eu,  appear  on  a  charter 
to  Trinity  du  Mont,  Rouen,  Normandy;  and  a  generation  later 
William  Talebot  appears  in  the  foundation  charter  in  1057  by 
Robert,  Comte  d'Eu,  of  the  Abbey  of  Treport  near  Eu,  Nor- 
mandy.    It  is  very  possible  that  this  William  Talebot  is  the 


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person  referred  to  as  "Le  Sire  Talebot"  on  the  Battle  Abbey 
Roll,  and  that  he  was  a  knightly  retainer  of  one  of  the  great 
feudal  Norman  barons  who  accompanied  William  the  Con- 
queror in  the  invasion  of  England.  (See  "The  Battle  Abbey 
Roll",  by  the  Duchess  of  Cleveland,  vol.  3,  p.  164.) 

Le  Sire^  Talbot  is  claimed  to  have  been  father  of  at  least  two 
sons: 

2.    i.  Richard',  b.  probably  about  1050. 

ii.  Geoffrey;  held  lands  as  undertenant  in  County  Essex,  as 
appears  in  the  Domesday  survey  in  1085.  (See  "A  General 
Introduction  to  Domesday  Book"  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis,  vol. 
2,  p.  393.) 

2.  RICHARD2  TALEBOT,  bom  in  Normandy  about  1050, 
was  the  ancestor  of  the  celebrated  historical  Talbot  family  of 
England.  (See  Burke's  "Landed  Gentry"  for  1850,  vol.  1, 
p.  740;  Burke's  "Peerage"  for  1904,  p.  1411;  and  Dugdale's 
"Baronage",  vol.  1,  p.  325.) 

After  the  conquest,  William  the  Conqueror  divided  most  of 
the  land  in  England  among  the  monasteries  and  his  chief  feudal 
barons  who  held  their  possessions  in  capite  or  directly  of  the 
King;  and  they  in  tiu-n  parcelled  out  their  possessions  among  the 
lesser  Normans  as  undertenants  who  owned  and  occupied  the 
lands  under  "knight's  fees"  or  obligations  to  render  military 
service  to  their  respective  barons,  according  to  the  feudal  custom 
of  the  age.  In  1085,  a  great  survey  and  census  was  made  of  the 
whole  of  England,  showing  the  baronial  possessions,  names  of  the 
undertenants,  and  extent  and  value  of  estates,  etc.;  the  results 
were  incorporated  into  two  great  volumes  called  "Domesday 
Book",  the  original  being  still  preserved  in  the  Public  Record 
Office  in  London;  it  established  the  foundation  of  all  titles  to 
land  in  England,  and  its  authority  has  never  been  allowed  to 
be  called  in  question.  Domesday  shows  that  in  1085  there  were 
about  fourteen  hundred  feudal  barons  who  held  great  estates 
in  capite,  and  about  eight  thousand  lesser  landholders  as  under- 
tenants, among  whom  Richard^  Talebot  held  a  manor  in  Battles- 
den,  Bedfordshire,  containing  eight  carucates  of  arable  land 
and  an  equal  amount  of  meadow,  as  undertenant  to  Walter 
Giffard,  feudal  Earl  of  Buckingham,  and  proprietor  of  over  one 
hundred  lordships  or  manors  in  various  parts  of  England.  A 
carucate  was  an  area  of  land  considered  capable  of  cultivation 
by  one  caruca  or  plowteam  of  four  oxen  yoked  abreast,  and 
averaged  about  ninety  modem  acres;  so  the  estate  in  Battlesden 


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occupied  by  Richard^  Talebot  comprised  about  fifteen  hundred 
acres.  (See  "A  General  Introduction  to  Domesday  Book", 
vol.  2,  pp.  511  and  393;  "Digest  of  the  Domesday  of  Bedford- 
shire", p.  54;  and  Burke's  "Peerage"  for  1904,  p.  1411.) 

Richard^  Talebot  married,  about  1080,  a  daughter  of  Hugh^ 
de  Gournay  by  Basilia  daughter  of  Gerard  Flaitel;  and  sister 
(not  daughter,  as  commonly  stated)  of  Gerard^  de  Gournay, 
feudal  Baron  of  Yarmouth.  (See  the  "Ecclesiastical  History 
of  Normandy  and  England",  by  Ordericus  Vitalis  [a  monk 
who  lived  from  1075  to  1142],  Forester's  edition,  vol.  3,  p.  452; 
Ordericus  here  states  that  Hugh^,  son  of  Richard^  Talebot,  was 
"nepos"  of  Hugh^  de  Gournay;  a  careful  study  of  the  Gournay, 
Mowbray,  Albini,  and  Talbot  families  shows,  that  the  word 
"nepos"  was  here  used  in  the  sense  of  "cousin"  and  not 
"nephew,"  as  writers  have  generally  assumed.) 

Children: 

3.   i.  Geoffrey',  b.  about  1080. 

ii.  Hugh,  b.  about  1085;  in  1118  was  in  a  rebellion  raised  by  his 
cousin  Hugh'  de  Gournay  against  King  Henry  I.;  ancestor 
of  the  Talbots,  Earls  of  Shrewsbury.  (See  Burke's  "Peer- 
age" for  1904,  p.  411;  Ordericus  Vitalis,  vol.  3,  p.  452,  as 
above.)  He  was  erroneously  claimed  to  be  ancestor  of  the 
Talbots  of  Bashall,  co.  York,  in  a  pedigree  of  that  Talbot 
family  compiled  in  1666  by  Christopher  Townley,  an  eminent 
Lancashire  antiquarian;  and  this  error  has  been  repeated  by 
some  later  historians  and  genealogists.  (For  an  account  of 
the  descendants  of  Hugh'  Talebot,  see  Appendix  I.,  pp.  85-87.) 

3.  GEOFFREY^  TALEBOT,  born  in  England  about  1080, 
with  his  kinsman  Gilbert  de  Lacy,  was  an  ardent  partisan  of 
Queen  Matilda*  in  her  rightful  claim  to  the  throne  of  England, 
which  was  usurped  by  her  cousin  Stephen  in  1135,  upon  the 
death  of  her  father  Henry  I.  In  1139  she  landed  in  England 
with  a  retinue  of  noblemen  adherents,  and  the  feudal  barons  of 
the  western  counties  of  England  rallied  to  her  standard.  King 
Stephen  dispatched  armies  against  them,  and  defeated  one  of 
her  forces  in  Herefordshire  which  was  commanded  by  Geoffrey^ 
Talebot.  (See  Hume's  "History  of  England",  edition  of  1795, 
vol.  1,  pp.  267-8,  and  Smollett's  "History  of  England",  second 
edition  vol.  2,  p.  41.)     After  the  civil  war  had  continued  several 

*  Daughter  and  only  surviving  legitimate  child  of  Henry  I.,  King  of 
England,  and  wife  successively  of  Henry  V.,  King  of  Germany,  and  of 
GeoflFrey  Plantagenet,  Comte  d'  Anjou. 


years  with  varying  success,  Matilda  was  driven  out  of  England 
in  1148  and  retired  to  Normandy;  but  a  compromise  was  effected 
that  thereafter  King  Stephen  should  reign  undisturbed  for  life 
and  on  his  death  Henry  Plantagenet,  son  of  Matilda,  should 
succeed  to  the  throne  of  England,  which  he  did  on  the  death 
of  King  Stephen  in  1154.  (See  Hume*s  "History  of  England", 
vol.  1,  p.  273.) 

Geoffrey^  Talebot  married  Agnes . 

Children: 

i.  Geoffrey*. 

4.  ii.  William,  b.  about  1110. 

4.  WILLIAM^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1110,  was  associated 
with  his  father  and  their  kinsman  Gilbert  de  Lacy  on  the  side 
of  Queen  Matilda  in  the  civil  war  with  King  Stephen,  men- 
tioned above.  In  1139  he  was  in  command  of  a  force  which 
held  Hereford  Castle  for  Matilda.  (See  "Visitation  of  York- 
shire 1666",  p.  236,  and  "Historia  Majora"  by  Matthew  Paris, 
vol.  2,  p.  167.)  Later  he  was  enfeoffed  by  his  second-cousin. 
Baron  Roger  de  Mowbray,  in  two  knight's  fees  of  the  manor  of 
Gainsborough,  co.  Lincoln,  which  he  is  recorded  as  holding  in 
1167.  (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  236,  and  "Lists 
of  Knight's  Fees  in  the  County  of  Lincoln,  14  Henry  II.") 
In  1174  the  estates  of  Roger  de  Mowbray  were  confiscated  by 
King  Henry  II.  on  account  of  the  former's  participation  in  an 
attempted  revolution  under  Prince  Henry,  eldest  son  of  the 
sovereign;  and  although  Baron  Mowbray  was  eventually  par- 
doned and  had  some  of  his  estates  restored  to  him,  the  Manor  of 
Gainsborough  was  granted  by  the  King,  in  capite,  to  another 
feudal  baron,  Henry  de  Lacy,  who  also  had  William^  Talebot 
as  undertenant.  (See  Burke's  "Extinct  Peerage"  for  1866, 
p.  386,  and  Stark's  "History  of  Gainsborough",  pp.  110-113.) 
Shortly  afterwards,  in  some  manner  not  ascertained,  William* 
Talebot  became  possessed  in  capite  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsbor- 
ough, as  in  22  Henry  II.  (1176)  he  appears  as  lord  of  that  manor 
and  paid  a  fine  of  2  marks  to  the  King  for  privilege  of  hunting  in 
the  royal  forest  of  Knaresborough.  (See  "Nova  Placitia  et 
Conventiones  pro  com.  Ebor,  ex  Rot.  Pipae",  22  Henry  II.; 
also  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  236.)  He  died  a  few 
years  later,  but  the  exact  year  has  not  been  determined.  The 
name  of  his  wife  is  unknown. 

Heir: 

5,  i.  William^  b.  about  1140. 


5.  WILLIAM^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1140,  succeeded  his 
father  as  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough,  co.  Lincohi,  on 
the  death  of  the  latter  toward  the  end  of  the  reign  of  Henry  II. 
(1154-1189).  In  1186  he  held  lands  in  Yorkshire  of  William  de 
Warren,  Earl  of  Surrey.  In  1190-1192  he  took  part  in  the 
third  crusade  to  Palestine  against  the  Saracens,  serving  in  the 
army  of  Richard  I.,  Coeur  de  Lion,  King  of  England,  and 
participated  in  the  glories  of  the  siege  of  Acres  and  the  great 
battle  of  Ascalon.  On  starting  upon  this  expedition,  he  made  a 
grant  to  the  church  of  Gainsborough  for  his  soul  and  the  souls 
of  his  father  William^  Talebot  and  grandfather  Geoffrey^  Tale- 
bot*.  (See  "Charter  Rolls",  1  Richard  I.)  William^  Talbot 
died  during  the  crusade  or  very  shortly  afterwards,  as  his  son 
Roger^  had  become  lord  of  Gainsborough  by  1194.  The  name 
of  his  wife  has  not  been  learned. 

Children : 

i.  Rogers,  b.  about  1165,  was  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough 
in  1194  when  he  paid  50  s.  on  an  assessment  levied  on  the 
nobility  and  landed  gentry  of  England  to  ransom  their  King, 
Richard  I.,  from  Henry  VI.,  Emperor  of  Germany,  into  whose 
inimical  hands  the  English  Bang  had  fallen  while  travelling 
home  through  Austria  from  the  crusade  to  Palestine.  (See 
"Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  pp.  242  and  236.)  Roger" 
Talebot  appears  as  holding  one  knight's  fee  in  Gainsborough, 
tevrfp.  King  John,  and  as  a  grantor  of  lands  to  the  church  of 
Gainsborough.  (Ibid.)  He  d.  without  issue,  as  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  brother  Robert. 

6.  ii.  Robert,  b.  about  1170;  heir  to  his  brother  of  the  Manor  of 

Gainsborough, 
iii.  Sylvester,  held  lands  in  Thorpe,  co.  York,  which  he  gave  to 

his  nephew  John'  Talebot  who  deeded  them  to  Selby  Abbey. 

(See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  236,  and  "Coucher 

Book  of  Selby",  charter  no.  434,  vol.  1,  p.  264.) 
iv.  Simon. 

6.  ROBERT^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1170,  succeeded  his 
brother  Roger®  as  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough,  co. 
Lincoln,  on  the  death  of  the  latter  without  issue  before  8  John 
(1207).     (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  pp.  236  and  242; 

*  William^  Talebot  and  his  father  William*  Talebot  have  been  con- 
fused into  one  individual  by  some  genealogists;  this  charter  and  the 
improbability  that  a  man  old  enough  for  an  important  military  com- 
mand in  1139  would  serve  in  a  foreign  expedition  in  1190,  over  fifty 
years  later,  indicate  there  were  two  generations  of  William  Talebots 
here. 


also  "Nova  Oblata  pro.  com.  Lincoln",  8  John.)  In  1215  he 
was  granted  by  King  John  the  lands  of  Hugh  Pincerni  in  Arne- 
thorpe  and  Skaleberg  in  Craven,  Yorkshire.  (See  "Close 
Rolls",  17  John,  part  1,  membrane  12.)  Before  1216  he  was 
granted  lands  in  Brackenburg  in  Craven,  Yorkshire,  by  Hugh 
de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster.  (See  "Patent  Rolls",  18  John,  mem- 
brane 5.)  Later  he  was  in  the  service  of  this  Hugh  de  Lacy  in 
Ireland,  from  whom  he  received  grants  of  extensive  estates  in 
that  country.  In  1225  the  estates  of  Robert^  Talebot  in  Ulster 
were  confiscated  by  King  Henry  III.  and  given  to  the  Bishop 
of  Durham,  the  said  Robert  having  served  under  his  lord  Hugh 
de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster,  in  an  insurrection  against  the  King; 
but  on  payment  of  a  fine  of  £100  the  said  Robert^  Talebot 
was  pardoned  and  the  estates  were  restored  to  him.  (See 
"Close  Rolls",  9  Henry  III.,  part  2,  membranes  16  and  5.) 
Robert^  Talebot  married  Ermintrude  de  Ferrers,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Robert  de  Ferrers  (a  son  of  Walcheline  de 
Ferrers,  a  younger  son  of  the  Earl  of  Derby) ;  she  brought  to  her 
husband  the  Manor  of  Eggington,  co.  Derby.  (See  "Visita- 
tion of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  236;  also  "Pleadings  in  the  Ex- 
chequer Rolls",  13  Henry  III.,  roll  13.) 
Children: 

i.  William',  b.  about  1195,  succeeded  his  father  as  lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Gainsborough,  but  resided  mostly  in  Normandy 
where  he  d.  in  1242.  As  he  left  no  male  issue,  by  some  means 
of  entailment,  the  details  of  which  are  not  of  record,  the 
Manor  of  Gainsborough  descended  to  his  younger  brothers 

and  not  to  his  daughter.    He  m.  Alice . 

Child: 
1.  Joanna 8,  sole  child  and  heiress;  m.  Robert  de  Stute- 
viLLE  to  whom  she  brought  the  Manor  of  Eggington. 
Upon  the  death  without  issue  in  1260  of  her  own-cousin 
Richard*  Talebot  (son  of  her  uncle  Gerard'  Talebot), 
Robert  de  Stuteville  and  Joanna  his  wife  unsuccess- 
fully   claimed    the    Manor    of    Gainsborough.     (See 
"Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  pp.  237  and  243;  also 
"Close  Rolls",  45  Henry  III.,  membrane  16a.) 
ii.  John',  received  lands  in  Thorpe  by  grant  from  his  uncle 
Sylvester  Talebot.     (See   "Visitation  of  Yorkshire   1666", 
p.  237;  also  "Coucher  Book  of  Selby",  vol.  1,  p.  264.)    In 
1242  he  succeeded  his  brother  William  as  lord  of  the  Manor 
of  Gainsborough,  where  he  was  granted  free  warren  by  King 
Henry  III.  in  1243.     (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p. 
237;  also  "Cartae  et  Pat.",  28  Henry  IH.)     During  the  same 
year  he  was  in  the  King's  service  against  the  Welsh.    (See 


"Close  Rolls",  28  Henry  III.,  membrane  6,  a.)  He  d.  with- 
out issue  35  Henry  III.  (1251). 
iii.  Gerard,  succeeded  his  brother  John  in  1251,  as  lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Gainsborough.  (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire 
1666",  p.  237.)  In  1243  he  had  been  in  the  King's  service 
with  his  brother  John  Talebot  in  an  expedition  against  the 
Welsh.  (See  "Close  Rolls",  28  Henry  HI.,  membrane  6a.) 
In  1257  the  King,  on  what  ground  is  not  clear,  claimed  the 
Manor  of  Gainsborough  which  resulted  in  the  following  settle- 
ment: by  charter  of  3  Nov.  1257,  the  King  granted  to  his 
brother,  William  de  Valence,  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough, 
CO.  Lincoln,  which  the  King  lately  claimed  in  his  court  against 
Gerard  Talebot,  who  restored  said  manor  to  the  King  by  a 
compromise  that  the  manor  should  remain  to  said  Gerard 
Talebot  for  life,  with  one-third  of  remainder  successively  to 
his  widow,  his  heir,  and  the  heirs  of  that  heir,  and  two-thirds, 
of  remainder  to  said  William  de  Valence.  (Charter  RoUs^ 
42  Henry  III.,  membrane  5.)     He  apparently  d.  about  1258. 

He  m.  (1),  EuPHEMiA ;  and  (2),  Sybil . 

Child  by  first  wife: 
1.  Richard*,  was  reversionary  heir  to  one-third  of  the 
Manor  of  Gainsborough  according  to  the  settlement 
above  quoted.  Upon  his  decease  without  issue  in 
1260,  his  own-cousins  Thomas"  Talbot  of  Bashall,  co. 
York,  and  Joanna  wife  of  Robert  de  Stuteville  of 
Eggington,  co.  Derby,  made  rival  claims  to  the  Manor 
of  Gainsborough.  (See  "Close  Rolls",  45  Henry  III., 
membrane  16a,  and  "Rotuli  Curiae  Regis",  45  Henry 
III.,  membrane  9.)  Both  of  these  claims  were  evi- 
dently unsuccessful,  as  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough 
passed  through  the  King  into  the  possession  of  his 
half-brother  William  de  Valence,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
according  to  the  compromise  settlement  made  by 
Gerard  Talbot,  as  above  related,  and  then  passed  to 
the  Earl's  descendants  through  the  families  of  Comyn, 
Strathbogie,  Percy,  and  Burgh,  to  Thomas  Baron 
Burgh,  who  sold  the  manor  in  1596  to  Sir  William 
Hickman  of  London,  Knt.  (See  Stark's  "History  of 
Gainsborough",  pp.  113-123,  which  account,  however, 
contains  several  obvious  errors  in  details.) 
7.  iv.  Robert',  b.  about  1205,  youngest  son. 

7.  ROBERT^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1205,  was  the  young- 
est son  of  Robert^  Talebot,  lord  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough, 
CO.  Lincoln.  When  a  young  man  he  settled  in  Yorkshire,  where 
he  was  granted  lands  in  Huddersfield  for  life  by  John  de  Lacy, 
Constable  of  Chester,  first  Earl  of  Lincoln  of  that  family,  and 


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owner  of  vast  estates  in  the  northern  counties  of  England. 
(See  "History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  500.)  According  to 
Christopher  Towneley,  this  Robert  Talebot  at  his  death  in  1235 
(20  Henry  III.)  held  two  parts  of  one  knight's  fee  in  Wulrickby 
{?)y  CO.  Lincoln,  which  had  been  given  to  him  by  his  father. 
(See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  237.) 

He  married  about  1230,  Matilda ,  who  married  sec- 
ondly, in  1236,  Robert  de  Bereville.  (Jhid.y  pp.  237  and 
243.) 

Children: 

8.    i.  Thomas^,  b.  about  1230. 
ii.    Robert,  held  certain  lands  in  Huddersfield,  co.  York,  which 
eventually  passed  by  a  daughter  and  heiress  to  the  Beaumont 
family  of  Whitley,  co.  York.     (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire 
1666",  pp.  237  and  243.) 

8.  TH0MAS8  TALBOT,  born  about  1230,  was  appointed 
governor  of  Clitheroe  Castle  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  by  Ed- 
mund de  Lacy,  second  Earl  of  Lincoln.  (See  "Visitation  of 
Yorkshire  1666",  p.  237.)  About  1253  he  had  granted  to  him 
by  de  Lacy  (whose  family  for  several  generations  were  powerful 
patrons  of  the  Talbots),  the  lands  in  Huddersfield  which  his 
parents  Robert  and  Matilda  Talbot  had  held  for  life.  (See 
"History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  500.)  He  also  had  by  grant 
from  de  Lacy,  37  Henry  III.  (1253),  the  Manor  of  Bashall  in  the 
parish  of  Mitton,  deanery  of  Craven,  co.  York,  in  fee  farm  to 
him  and  his  heirs  forever,  at  a  yearly  rent  of  £8-10-7,  to  be  paid 
on  the  feast  of  St.  Giles  (Sept.  1).  (See  "History  of  Whalley", 
vol.  2,  p.  497;  also  Harleian  Mss.  804,  fol.  17,  British  Mu- 
seum.) This  grant  was  later  confirmed  by  the  King,  in  capiie, 
and  Bashall  became  the  main  seat  of  this  branch  of  the  Talbot 
family.  In  1260  he  made  an  unsuccessful  claim  to  the  Manor  of 
Gainsborough,  as  previously  related,  claiming  his  rights  through 
his  father  Robert^  Talebot,  youngest  son  of  Robert  ®  Talebot, 
lord  of  the  Manor  of  Gainsborough  in  the  time  of  King  John. 
(See  "Rotuli  Curiae  Regis",  45  Henry  III.,  membrane  9.) 
He  died  about  2  Edward  I.  (1273). 

He  married  Martha . 

Children: 

9.  i.  Edmund',  b.  about  1260. 
ii.  Robert. 

iii.  Thomas. 
iv.    Giles. 


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9.  SIR  EDMUND^  TALBOT,  KNT.,  of  Bashall,  co.  York, 
born  about  1260,  succeeded  to  the  family  estates.  In  31  Edward 
I.  (1303),  he  served  in  the  great  expedition  against  Scotland,  for 
which  service  he  received  on  25  July  1304,  the  grant  of  free 
warren  in  Bashall  and  Hapton.  (See  "Visitation  of  York- 
shire 1666",  p.  238;  "Charter  Rolls",  32  Edward  I.,  no.  31; 
and  "History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  497.)  In  1306  he  received 
the  honor  of  knighthood  by  bathing  and  other  ceremonies  along 
with  Prince  Edward  (afterwards  King  Edward  II.).  (See 
"Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  243.)  His  name  and  arms 
appear  on  a  roll  of  the  time  of  Edward  I.  as  "Sire  Edmund 
Talbot;  de  argent,  3  lioncells  de  pourpre".  On  22  Oct.  1309 
he  was  summonsed  for  service  against  the  Scots.  (See  "History 
of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  497;  also  "Rotuli  Scotiae",  vol.  1,  p.  78.) 
He  was  witness  to  a  deed  dated  the  day  before  the  feast  of  St. 
Margaret  the  Virgin  (July  19)  1310.  (See  "Coucher  Book  of 
Whalley",  p.  925.)  He  died  soon  after,  as  in  4  Edward  II. 
(1311),  his  widow  Joane  is  recorded  as  holding  as  dower  two 
carucates  of  land  in  Rishton,  Lancashire.  (See  Baine*s  "His- 
tory of  Lancashire",  edition  of  1870,  vol.  2,  p.  84.) 

He  married  about  1304,  Joane  Holland,  born  about  1285, 
sister  (not  daughter  as  commonly  stated)  of  Sir  Robert  Holland, 
Knt.,  first  Baron  Holland.  She  married  secondly,  about  1312, 
Sir  Hugh  Button,  Knt.,  who  died  in  1326;  and  she  married 
thirdly,  about  1328,  Sir  John  Radcliffe  of  Ordsall,  Knt.,  hold- 
ing with  him  in  1349  two  carucates  of  land  in  Rishton,  as  dower 
from  her  first  husband  Sir  Edmund  Talbot,  Knt.  (See  Baine's 
"History  of  Lancashire",  vol.  2,  p.  84;  "Chetham  Society  Pub- 
lications", vol.  95,  pp.  8,  9,  15,  23;  and  the  Dutton  pedigree  in 
Ormerod's  "History  of  Cheshire",  vol.  1,  pp.  645-6;  this  latter 
authority  however  gives  her  marriages  in  a  wrong  order.) 

Children: 

i.  JoHN^°,  b.  about  1305;  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Bashall  according 
to  "Nomina  Villarum"  for  Yorkshire  9  Edward  II.  (1316). 
(See  "Surtees  Society  Publications",  vol.  49,  p.  354.)  He 
was  under  age  and  in  ward  to  the  King  on  22  Aug.  1325. 
(See  "Close  Rolls",  19  Edward  IL,  membrane  31.)  He  soon 
after  became  of  age,  as  in  2  Edward  III.  (1328),  he  released 
the  Manor  of  Hapton  to  Gilbert  de  Leigh,  giving  a  receipt 
for  payment  on  12  Mar.  1327/8.  (See  "Chetham  Society 
Publications",  vol.  95,  p.  153;  "History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p. 
497;  and  Harleian  Mss.,  804,  fol.  17,  British  Museum.)  He 
died  soon  after  without  issue. 
10.   ii.  Thomas",  b.  about  1307;  heir  to  his  brother. 


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10.  SIR  THOMASio  TALBOT,  KNT.,  of  Bashall,  born 
about  1307,  on  the  death  without  issue  of  his  elder  brother 
John,  succeeded  to  the  family  estates  about  1328.  On  3  Feb. 
1328/9,  he  was  deeded  lands  in  Mitton  by  John  de  Brockholes. 
(See  "History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  497;  Harleian  Mss. 
804,  fol.  17,  British  Museum.)  In  1330  he  was  a  knight,  and 
in  1338  was  in  service  on  the  Scottish  borders.  (See  "Rotuli 
Scotiae",  12  Edward  III.,  membrane  19.)  In  1356  he  granted 
annuities  to  two  of  his  younger  sons,  Thomas  and  John.  (See 
"History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  501.)  On  18  Feb.  1347/8, 
Sir  Thomas  Talbot,  Knt.,  was  appointed  on  a  commission  to 
investigate  damage  done  in  the  Queen's  chase  of  Slaidburn  and 
Bowland.  (See  "Patent  Rolls",  21  Edward  III.,  part  1,  mem- 
brane 31d.) 

He  married  about  1328,  Elizabeth  Bellair,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  James  Bellair  of  Leicestershire;  she  survived  him, 
being  mentioned  as  his  widow  in  40  Edward  III.  (1366).  (See 
"History  of  Whalley",  vol.  1,  p.  500.) 

Children: 

11.     i.  Edmund",  b.  about  1328. 
ii.  Thomas;  living  1356. 
iii.  John;  living  1356. 

iv.  Richard;  a  witness  in  the  celebrated  Serope  vs.  Grosvenor 
controversy  in  1386  as  to  the  right  to  a  certain  coat  of  arms. 
V.  Mary;  m.  Richard  Tempest. 
vi.  Elizabeth. 

11.  SIR  EDMUNDii  TALBOT,  KNT.,  of  Bashall,  born 
about  1328,  is  said  to  have  served  in  the  war  in  France  in  1348, 
although  probably  not  then  quite  of  age,  and  to  have  been 
knighted  at  the  capture  of  Calais  in  that  year.  (See  Foster's 
"Feudal  Arms  and  Pedigrees",  p.  189.)  In  1354  (28  Edward 
III.),  Robert  de  Rishton  was  plaintiff  against  Edmund  Talbot, 
son  of  Thomas  Talbot,  defendant,  concerning  the  Manor  of 
Rishton,  Lancashire.  (See  "Record  Society  of  Lancashire  and 
Cheshire**,  vol.  8,  p.  364.)  Later  Sir  Edmund  Talbot  served 
under  the  famous  "Black  Prince"  in  his  campaigns  in  France, 
and  in  1367  fought  in  the  battle  of  Navaretta.  He  died  in 
1373.     (See  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  238.) 

He  married  about  1353,  Margery  Byron,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Byron,  Knt.,  of  Clayton,  Lancashire.  (See  "History  of 
Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  500.) 


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Children: 

i.  Thomas",  b.  about  1353;  eldest  son  and  heir,  and  succeeded 
to  the  Bashall  estates.    For  account  of  him  and  his  descend- 
ants, see  "History  of  Whalley,"  vol.  2,  pp.  497-500. 
12.   ii.  RicHABD,  b.  about  1355. 

iii.  William,  b.  about  1360;  his  son  John"  Talbot  was  progenitor 
of  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury  in  Lancashire.    For  account  of 
this  branch,  see  Appendix  U.,  pp.  88-92. 
iv.  Henry;  was  granted  an  annuity  of  20  marks  for  life  on  15 
Oct.  1398,  which  was  confirmed  16  Sept.  1400.     (See  "Patent 
Rolls",  1  Henry  IV,  part  8,  membrane  3.) 
V.  Gerard;  living  1396. 
vi.  Edmund;  living  1398. 
vii.  Matilda;  m.  Peter  de  Riggenhall. 

12.  RICHARD12  TALBOT,  born  about  1355,  second  son  of 
Sir  Edmund  Talbot,  Knt.,  of  Bashall,  co.  York,  settled  in  the 
adjoining  parish  of  Slaidburn  where  he  acquired  lands  which 
continued  in  possession  of  his  descendants  for  several  genera- 
tions. (See  "History  of  Whalley",  vol.  2,  p.  514.)  At  the 
inquisition  post  mortem  of  Thomas  de  Twenge,  taken  26  Nov. 
1376,  the  jurors  stated  that  Richard  Talbot  and  Anabilla  his 
wife  and  others  held  the  Manor  of  EUale  of  said  Thomas  de 
Twenge.  (Inquisitions  post  mortem,  50  Edward  III.,  no  68.) 
He  was  buried  at  the  chapel  of  Stede  in  1388  (10  Richard  II.). 
(See  "History  of  Whalley",  vol  2,  p.  514;  "History  of  Craven", 
p.  36.) 

He  married  about  1375,  Avelina  or  Anabella  Rigmaden, 
daughter  of  Peter  Rigmaden. 
Children: 

13.  i.  Peter",  b.  about  1380. 

ii.  Giles;  is  mentioned  as  brother  of  Peter  Talbot,  son  of  Rich- 
ard Talbot,  among  reversioners  of  a  deed  of  enfeofiFment 
quoted  in  the  inquisition  post  mortem  on  the  estate  of  Henry 
de  Houghton,  taken  at  CUtheroe,  30  Dec.  1432.  (See  "Chet- 
ham  Society  Publications",  vol.  99,  p.  44.) 

13.  PETER13  TALBOT,  born  about  1380,  succeeded  to  his 
father's  estates  in  Slaidburn  and  other  neighboring  parishes. 
Peter  Talbot  and  Ellen  his  wife  appear  in  a  list  of  numerous 
persons  who  paid  fines  on  final  concords  in  the  Duchy  of  Lan- 
caster, 5  Henry  V.  (1417),  and  6  Henry  VI.  (1427).  (See 
**  Record  Society  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire",  vol.  50,  pp.  85 


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and  124.)  The  inquisition  post  mortem  of  Henry  de  Houghton, 
taken  at  Clitheroe,  30  Dec.  1432,  mentions  among  reversioners  of 
a  deed  of  enfeoffment  Peter  Talbot,  son  of  Richard  Talbot,  and 
his  heirs,  and  failing  heirs,  then  Giles  Talbot,  brother  of  said 
Peter,  and  his  heirs.  (See  "Chetham  Society  Publications", 
vol.  99,  p.  44.) 

About  this  time,  Peter  Talbot  was  suspected  of  being  in- 
volved with  others  in  some  conspiracy  under  Richard,  Duke  of 
York,  against  King  Henry  VI.  Accordingly,  on  24  May  1432, 
a  commission  was  directed  to  Sir  Edmund  Talbot,  Knt.,  and 
others,  of  Yorkshire,  to  arrest  Peter  Talbot  and  others,  and 
bring  them  before  the  King's  court  at  midsummer  next.  (See 
"Patent  Rolls",  10  Henry  VI.,  part  1,  membrane  4  d.)  Ap- 
parently Peter  Talbot  avoided  arrest,  as  similar  warrants  ap- 
pear dated  19  Jan.  1432/3,  10  Dec.  1433,  16  Oct.  1434,  10  May 
1435,  and  15  Feb.  1436/7.  (Ihid.,  11  Henry  6,  part  1,  mem. 
15  d.,  etc.)  Finally,  in  1437,  Peter  Talbot,  son  of  Richard 
Talbot,  alias  Peter  Talbot  of  Newland,  co.  York,  alias  Peter 
Talbot  late  of  Bashall,  co.  York,  aUas  Peter  Talbot  of  Bowland, 
CO.  York,  etc.,  was  granted  a  pardon  for  conspiring  with  Richard, 
Duke  of  York,  against  the  King.  (See  "  Pardon  Rolls",  15  Henry 
VI.,  membrane  6;  also  "Visitation  of  Yorkshire  1666",  p.  239.) 

In  a  list  of  the  tenants  of  the  Honour  of  Clitheroe,  taken  by 
commission  dated  25  May  1443,  appear  Peter  Talbot  and  Giles 
Talbot;  and  Peter  Talbot  also  appears  as  a  tenant  in  the  Forest 
of  Bowland.     (See  "Court  Rolls,  Honour  of  Clitheroe",  vol. 

1,  pp.  499-500.)     He  was  buried  at  Stede  in  1446. 

Peter^^  Talbot  married  first,  before  1405,  Anna  Dutton, 
daughter  of  Giles  Dutton.     (See  "History  of  Whalley",  vol. 

2,  p.  514.) 

He  married  secondly,  about  1410,  Ellen  Cunliffe,  born 
about  1385,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Roger  Cunliffe  of  Billing- 
ton,  CO.  Lancaster.  She  brought  to  her  husband  property  in 
Tadcaster,  co.  York,  and  the  hundred  acre  farm  in  Wilpshire 
in  the  parish  of  Blackburn,  co.  Lancaster,  called  from  time  im- 
memorial "Carr  Hall".  This  latter  estate  became  the  home- 
stead of  a  branch  of  the  Talbot  family  for  ten  generations  through 
a  period  of  just  three  centuries,  and  was  the  ancestral  home  of 
Peter22  Talbot,  the  colonist  of  New  England  in  1675.  It  will 
therefore  be  of  interest  to  give  a  short  outline  of  the  Cunliffe 
family,  taken  from  the  "Victoria  History  of  Lancashire",  vol. 
6,  pp.  331  and  336. 


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CuNLiFPE  Pedigree 


Robert^  de  Cundeclyve 

of  Billington,  co.  Lancaster 

(b.  abt.  1220)  Uv.  1246,  1258,  1265 


I 


i 

Robert^  de  Cundeclyve  ==s 
(b.  abt.  1250)  Uv.  1276,  1288,  1296 

1 ' 


Robert'  de  Cundeclyve 
(b.  abt.  1280)  d.  bef.  1319 


T 


Robert*  de  Cundeclyve,  — -  Alice,  dau.  &  heir  of 

Cundecliflfe,  or  Cunliffe  I  Stephen  de  Hamerton 

(b.  abt.  1305)  of  Tadcaster,  co.  York 


J 


I 

Robert  de  Cunliffe 

of  Carr  Hall  and  Tadcaster 

(b.  abt.  1325) 


Margaret  =  Adam 
Cunliffe       de  Lever 


I 

Robert  Cunliffe 
d.  s.  p.  1399 


I \ 

Adam  Cunliffe  a= 
(b.  abt.  1355) 


Roger  Cunliffe  =s 
(b.  abt.  1360) 


Peter"  Talbot 
b.  abt.  1380 


1410 


I 
Ellen  Cunliffe 
(b.  abt.  1385) 


Child  of  Peter^^  Talbot  by  his  first  wife  Anna  Dutton: 

i.  Giles",  b.  about  1405;  succeeded  to  the  estates  of  his  father 
in  Slaidburn,  Rowland,  etc.;  is  mentioned  on  the  Pardon 
Rolls  of  39  Henry  VI.  (1460-1),  and  was  buried  at  Stede. 
He  m.  Elizabeth  Hopton,  daughter  of  Robert  Hopton. 
Children: 
1.  Edmund",  b.  about  1430,  d.  without  issue  12  Aug. 
1496,  and  was  buried  in  the  Church  of  Preaching  Friars, 
London.    The   will   of   Edmonde  Talbotte,   esquier, 
dated  11  Aug.  1496.    Bequests  for  masses,  etc.    Two 
"vestmentes  withe  myne  armes  theruppon'*  to  the 
altars  of  the  Church  of  Preaching  Friars.    To  my  sis- 
ters Anne  and  Jennett.    To  the  children  of  John  Tal- 
botte, to  pray  for  my  soul.    Masses  for  the  soul  of 
my  wife  Margarete.    To  James  Lyvesey  and  William 
his  brother  20s.  each.    To  [nephews]  Grilles,  WiUiam, 
and  Edmonde  Talbotte,  10  marks  each.    All  residue 
to  my  brother  Nicholas  Talbotte,  executor;  he  also 


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to  have  all  lands  "I  hadde  by  my  Fader  lying  in  Slade- 
bourn  Wodehouse",  co.  York,  to  be  at  his  will.  Proved 
25  Aug.  1496.  (P.C.C.  Home  1.)  He  m.  Margaret 
.    No  children. 

2.  Jennett. 

3.  Nicholas,  heir  to  his  brother  Edmund,  d.  in  1501. 
His  will  dated  8  June  1501,  gave  small  bequests  to 
over  seventy  persons,  and  to  several  churches  and 
towns.  Of  his  relatives  he  mentions  his  wife  Jane, 
her  first  husband  David  Greffyn,  his  deceased  brother 
Edmund  Talbott,  his  nephews  Gilles  and  Edmunde 
Talbott  and  Gilles,  Edmunde,  and  Nicholis  Levesey; 
also  Gilbarde  Talbott,  Sir  John  Talbott,  Knt.  [of 
Salesbury]  and  "Edmund  Talbott  the  heire  of  Bashall'*. 
He  gave  20s.  in  alms  "as  a  recompense  of  what  I  have 
wonne  or  lost  yn  gamynge".  He  left  bequests  for 
masses  at  several  churches,  including  Stede  in  Lan- 
cashire "where  my  fader  &  moder  is  buryed",  and 
directed  that  he  be  buried  in  the  lady  chapel  of  the 
church  of  Great  Berkhampsted,  co.  Herts.  He  left 
all  his  lands  in  Slaidburn  Wodhouse  in  BoUand,  co. 
York,  to  nephew  Gilles  Talbott,  with  remainder  to 
issue  of  his  sister  Anne  Levesey.     (P.C.C,  1  Blamyr.) 

He  m.  Jane  ,  widow  of  David  Griffin.    No 

children. 

4.  Anne;  m.  John  Levesey.  Children:  1.  Giles;  eldest 
son  and  heir;  on  the  death  without  issue  in  1510  of 
his  cousin  Giles^^  Talbot,  succeeded  to  the  Slaidburn 
estates  of  their  great-grandfather  Peter^'  Talbot,  grand- 
father Giles^*  Talbot,  and  uncles  Edmund^^  and  Nich- 
olas^**  Talbot,  according  to  the  will  of  the  latter,  and 
was  unsuccessfully  sued  for  the  property  by  George" 
Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  a  second  cousin,  details  of  which 
litigation  will  be  given  in  the  account  of  the  latter. 
2.  Edmund.    3.  Nicholas. 

5.  Giles,  d.  unm. 

6.  William,  d.  before  1496;  was  married,  but  the  name 
of  his  wife  is  unknown.  Children:  1.  Giles^^y  h.  about 
1465;  heir  to  his  uncle  Nicholas"  Talbot  in  1501;  d. 
about  1510  leaving  no  surviving  issue.  2.  William, 
d.  before  1500,  without  issue.  3.  Edmund,  d.  before 
1510  without  issue. 

Child  of  Peteri3  Talbot  by  his  second  wife  Ellen  CunlifiFe: 
14.  ii.  Richard",  b.  about  1412,  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall  as  heir 
of  his  mother. 


1^ 

14.  RICHARD14  TALBOT,  born  about  1412,  as  heir  to  his 
mother,  Ellen  Cunliffe,  succeeded  to  a  small  property  in  Tad- 
caster,  CO.  York  and  to  her  ancestral  estate  called  "Carr  Hall" 
in  Wilpshire  township,  Blackburn  parish,  Lancashire.  Thus 
was  established  a  new  branch  of  the  Talbot  family,  which  owned 
and  occupied  Carr  Hall  for  three  centuries  until  the  death  in 
1709  of  George  ^i  Talbot,  whose  widow  sold  the  estate  out  of  the 
family. 

While  the  armorial  and  knightly  Talbots  of  Bashall  and  of 
Salesbury  were  lords  of  manors  and  each  of  these  families  owned 
a  few  thousand  acres  of  land  and  numerous  cottages  let  to 
tenants,  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall  possessed  as  their  principal 
estate  a  small  homestead  farm  of  about  one  hundred  acres, 
having  a  couple  of  small  cottages  in  addition  to  the  Hall  and  its 
farm  buildings.  But  as  they  were  freehold  owners  of  their 
estate  and  descended  from  the  ancient  Talbots  of  Bashall,  they 
ranked  as  minor  landed  and  armorial  gentry,  and  were  entitled 
to  and  used  a  coat  of  arms  similar  to  that  borne  by  the  Bashall 
and  Salebury  families.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Talbots  of 
Carr  Hall,  recorded  with  their  pedigree  in  the  Visitation  of 
Lancashire  in  1665,  was:  Argent,  three  lions  salient,  vert;  while 
the  arms  of  the  Talbots  of  Bashall  and  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury, 
recorded  in  earlier  visitations  were:  Argent,  three  lions  salient, 
purpure;  the  only  difference  thus  being  in  the  tincture  of  the 
lions. 

The  hundred  acre  estate  known  for  centuries  as  "The  Carr" 
or  as  "Carr  Hall"  derived  its  name  from  its  situation  under  a 
high  bank  beside  a  moorland  stream,  the  word  "carr"  signifying 
a  piece  of  boggy  ground.  It  is  located  in  Wilpshire,  one  of  the 
numerous  townships  of  the  ancient  and  extensive  former  parish 
of  Blackburn  in  Lancashire,  which  since  1851  has  been  a  city 
and  grown  to  a  population  of  about  140,000  from  its  important 
manufacture  of  cotton  print  cloths.  The  township  of  Wilp- 
shire lies  about  four  miles  north-east  of  the  center  of  the  city  of 
Blackburn,  on  the  northerly  slope  of  high  land  on  the  main 
highway  from  Blackburn  to  Whalley.  A  portion  of  the  town- 
ship nearest  to  the  city  has  in  recent  years  become  a  pleasant 
residential  suburb  of  Blackburn,  with  attractive  modern  dwell- 
ings; but  most  of  the  township  is  still  open  agricultural  land  with 
old  stone  farm  houses,  several  of  them  built  over  three  centuries 
ago.  The  Carr  Hall  estate  is  situated  on  the  highest  part  of  the 
main  road  from  Blackburn  to  Whalley  and  commands  a  charm- 


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ing  view  towards  the  north  and  west  over  the  valley  of  the 
Ribble  River;  but  towards  the  south  and  east  the  hill  rises 
sharply  behind  the  house  to  a  considerable  height,  and  a  flow- 
ing stream  and  numerous  springs  on  the  hillside  make  the  land 
rather  boggy  about  Carr  Hall,  whence  its  name.  Of  the  earlier 
buildings  on  the  estate  no  knowledge  has  been  secured;  but  the 
present  stone  mansion  was  built  about  1580  by  George^^  Talbot, 
and  in  the  account  of  him  a  full  description  of  the  house  will  be 
given. 

Richard^^  Talbot  was  in  middle  life  when  the  famous  Wars 
of  the  Roses  broke  out  in  1455,  which  raged  intermittently  for 
thirty  years  for  the  succession  to  the  English  throne  between 
the  royal  Houses  of  Lancaster  and  York,  descendants  in  various 
lines  from  King  Edward  III.  During  this  sanguinary  civil 
strife,  which  lasted  a  generation  and  almost  annihilated  many 
of  the  greatest  families  of  the  feudal  nobility  of  England,  the 
knightly  Talbots  of  Bashall  and  their  junior  branches  of  Sales- 
bury,  Slaidburn,  and  Carr,  steadfastly  served  imder  the  white 
rose  of  the  House  of  York.  At  the  battle  of  Wakefield,  30  Dec. 
1460,  the  Yorkists  were  defeated,  and  their  leader,  Richard, 
Duke  of  York,  was  killed.  In  February  following,  1460/1, 
the  Lancastrian  King  Henry  VI.,  issued  pardons  for  large  num- 
bers of  his  Yorkist  opponents,  including  Sir  Edmund^^  Talbot, 
Knt.,  of  Bashall,  Thomas^^,  son  of  Sir  Edmund^^  Talbot,  John^* 
Talbot  of  Salesbury ,  Gilesl^  son  of  Peter^^  Talbot,  and  Richard^^^ 
son  of  Peteri3  Talbot.  (See  "Pardon  Rolls",  39  Henry  VI.) 
But  the  Yorkists  again  took  the  field,  and  a  few  weeks  later  the 
battles  of  Mortimer's  Cross  and  Towton  completely  and  per- 
manently crushed  the  power  of  the  House  of  Lancaster;  and 
Edward,  son  of  Richard,  Duke  of  York,  became  King  of  England, 
as  Edward  IV.,  on  4  March  1460/1.  King  Henry  VI.  escaped 
for  a  time,  but  in  1465  was  captured  by  Sir  Thomas^'*  Talbot, 
KJQt.,  of  Bashall,  assisted  by  a  party  of  his  relatives. 

For  their  services  to  the  House  of  York,  the  several  Talbots 
were  rewarded  by  King  Edward  IV.  with  various  grants  of  lands 
and  monetary  pensions  for  life;  among  those  so  favored  was 
Richard^^,  son  of  Peter^^  Talbot,  who  was  granted  twenty  acres 
of  land  in  Pendleton,  co.  Lancaster.  (See  "Patent  Rolls", 
6  Edward  IV.,  mem.  15.) 

Richard^*  Talbot  died  before  1482,  but  the  exact  time  has  not 
been  ascertained.    The  name  of  his  wife  has  not  been  learned. 

Child: 

15.  i.  STEPHEN^^  b.  about  1440. 


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15.  STEPHENi^  TALBOT,  born  about  1440,  succeeded 
his  father  in  the  possession  of  Carr  Hall,  co.  Lancaster,  and 
estates  in  Tadcaster,  co.  York,  and  Pendleton,  co.  Lancaster, 
and  is  the  first  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall  mentioned  in  the 
pedigree  of  that  family  in  the  Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  1664-5. 

The  College  of  Arms  of  England,  instituted  about  1464,  and 
later  incorporated,  is  invested  with  the  authority  of  granting 
and  confirming  coats-of-arms  and  of  registering  them  and  the 
pedigrees  of  their  bearers.  To  facilitate  the  authority  of  the 
College  of  Arms,  during  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries, 
once  in  about  a  generation,  its  heralds  went  into  the  various 
counties  of  England  to  visit  the  landed  gentry,  obtain  and  com- 
pile records  of  their  pedigrees  and  arms,  and  publish  lists  of 
persons  unlawfully  assuming  armorial  bearings.  Pedigrees  in 
Visitations  cannot  always  be  relied  upon  to  be  correct,  as  some 
of  the  information  given  to  the  heralds  was  mere  tradition. 
There  were  four  Visitations  of  Lancashire,  viz.;  in  1533,  1567, 
1613,  and  1664.  Pedigrees  of  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury  are 
given  in  all  these  Visitations  of  Lancashire;  but  the  Talbots 
of  Carr  appear  only  in  the  Visitation  of  1664-5  by  Sir  William 
Dugdale,  as  follows: 

Talbot  op  Carr 

Arms. — Argenty  three  lions  salient,  vert. 
Stephen  Talbot  of  Carr  = 

George  Talbot  of  Carr    = 
vix.  16  Henry  VII.         I 

Nicholas  Talbot  of  Carr  =p  Anne,  dau.  &  heir  of 
vix.  1  Edward  VI.        I        Ewan  Browne 


J 


George  Talbot  =  Anne,    dau.    of    Mr. 

ob.  1629  aet.  83.  |    Roger      Nowell      of 

Meareley 


J 
J 


I 
John  Talbot  r=  Dorothy,  dau.  of  Ed- 

ward    Braddyl      of 
Portfield. 


Edward  Talbot  of  Carr  =^  Mabel,  dau.  of  Laur- 
ence Carleton 


I 
George  Talbot 


J 


18 

(The  Visitation  of  Lancashire  for  1664-5  by  Dugdale  has  been 
printed  by  the  Chetham  Society,  and  the  above  Talbot  pedigree 
appears  on  p.  299  of  vol.  88  of  their  publications.) 

The  foregoing  pedigree  has  been  proved  by  other  sources  to 
be  correct,  except  in  two  details,  viz.;  George  Talbot  died  in 
1628,  not  1629;  and  Mabel  Carleton  was  daughter  of  Launcelot, 
not  Laurence,  Carleton. 

It  is  noticeable  that  while  almost  all  the  three  hundred  pedi- 
grees entered  in  this  Visitation  are  signed  by  the  heads  of  the 
families  submitting  them  to  the  herald,  the  pedigree  of  Talbot 
of  Carr  is  not  so  signed.  Moreover,  as  will  be  duly  shown,  the 
last  named  George  Talbot,  then  head  of  the  family,  was  from 
1657  to  1685  out  of  possession  of  the  ancestral  estate,  and  fur- 
thermore, at  the  time  of  the  Visitation  he  had  a  wife  and  at 
least  four  children  not  mentioned  in  the  pedigree.  It  is  there- 
fore apparent  that  this  pedigree  had  been  compiled  many  years 
before  the  time  of  the  Visitation,  but  was  accepted  and  entered 
by  Dugdale  as  authentic;  and  by  good  fortune  the  original  of 
this  pedigree  still  exists  and  has  been  found. 

During  the  seventeenth  century,  there  flourished  in  Cheshire 
and  Lancashire  four  antiquarians  and  genealogists  named 
Randle  Holme  of  Chester.  For  four  generations  they  were 
actively  engaged  in  compiling  pedigrees  and  emblazoning  arms 
of  the  gentry  of  those  counties,  and  at  times  acted  as  assistants 
and  deputies  to  the  heralds  of  the  College  of  Arms.  Their 
valuable  manuscripts  are  now  among  the  famous  Harleian 
Collection  in  the  British  Museum,  London.  Among  these, 
Harleian  Mss.  1987  is  a  large  volume  of  their  pedigrees  of  Lan- 
cashire families,  and  on  page  48  appears  the  following  pedigree, 
made  in  1628  by  the  first  Randle  Holme,  of  the 

Taubots  op  Carr 

Stephen  Talbott  == 
liv.  21  Ed.  IV.  [1481]  ' 


I  I  I 

Richard  George  =  William 

ob.  s.  p.        liv.  17  Hen.  VII.  [1501]  a  priest 

I ' 

Agnes,  fil.  Lau.  ==  Nicholas  ^  Anne,  fil.  et  coheir  Evan 
Shotilworth  Talbot  Browne  de  Ribbleton, 

arm. 


J 


19 

a  b 

I  I 

Margaret  m.  George  s=  Anne  fil.  Roger  Noell  de 


Rob.  Aspden     ob.  4  Chas.  I. 
I  [1628]  ae.  83 


Mearley 


I 

Rich*d  Aspden     John  Talbott  ==  Doroth.    fil.    Edward 

Bradhull    de    Port- 
field,  arm. 


ob.  2  Chas.  I.  fil.  et  heir,  aet. 
m.  fil.  Worthing-  57, 4  Chas.  I. 
ton  de  Sindle.  [1628] 

I  i 

Filia  et  heir       Edward  Talbot  =s  Mabilla,  filia  Launce- 


habet  terras 
in  Todcaster 


lot  Carleton 


George  Talbot 
aet.  5, 4  Chas.  I.  [1628] 

The  above  pedigree  made  in  1628  by  Randle  Holme,  was  evi- 
dently compiled  from  family  statements  and  old  family  docu- 
ments and  is  remarkably  accurate.  Every  step  in  the  descent 
and  all  the  details  have  been  proved  correct  by  other  sources; 
and  this  pedigree  clearly  was  the  basis  of  Dugdale's  pedigree 
in  the  Visitation  of  1664-5. 

As  Stephen^^  Talbot,  besides  his  main  seat  at  Carr  Hall,  also 
inherited  and  occupied  property  in  Tadcaster,  eight  miles  from 
the  city  of  York,  it  is  not  surprising  to  find  mentions  of  him 
near  this  cathedral  city.  On  a  deed  made  by  Robert  Sharpies 
to  William  Snawesell  and  others  of  lands  in  the  City  of  York, 
dated  7  June  4  Edward  IV.  [1464],  Stephen^^  Talbot  was  one  of 
the  witnesses.  (See  "York  Memorandum  Book",  fol.  321  d.) 
The  will  of  John  Holme  of  Huntington*  (a  wealthy  merchant  of 
the  city  of  York),  dated  20  Dec.  1490,  mentions  among  his 
relatives  his  father-in-law  William  Snawsell  and  his  "cosyn 
Stephyn  Talbot,  Esq.,  and  Margaret  his  wife".  (Prerogative 
and  Exchequer  Court  of  York,  vol.  5,  fol.  389.)  The  pedigree  by 
Randle  Holme  mentions  Stephen  Talbot  as  living  21  Edward 
IV.  [1481] ;  so  probably  Holme  was  shown  some  document  signed 
in  that  year  by  Stephen  Talbot  which  was  in  the  possession  of 
his  descendants  in  1628. 

From  probate  records  it  appears  that  Stephen^^  Talbot  died 
in  1494,  leaving  the  following  will: 

The  will  of  Stephen  Talbot,  Esquier,  dated  19  Jan.  1493/4. 

*  A  parish  in  Yorkshire,  three  miles  from  the  City  of  York. 


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My  body  to  be  buried  within  the  church  of  St.  Clemence  of 
Danys  without  the  barres  of  the  Newe  Temple  of  London,  before 
the  crucifex  in  the  said  church.  I  bequeith  xxiv  marks*  to  be 
given  to  priests  to  sing  M^  masses  for  my  soul.  Residue  of  all 
my  goodes  I  give  to  Margarete  my  wif,  which  Margarete  of 
this  my  wyll  I  make  myn  executrice.  Witnesses:  Sir  Robert 
Evererd,  priest,  and  William  Havison.  Proved  16  Nov.  1494 
by  Margaret,  relict  and  executrix.     (P.C.C.,  17  Vox.) 

The  church  of  St.  Clement  Danes,  London,  is  located  in  the 
center  of  the  easterly  end  of  the  Strand,  just  before  the  Strand 
terminates  at  Temple  Bar  and  becomes  Fleet  Street.  There 
has  been  a  church  on  this  spot  for  over  twelve  hundred  years; 
but  the  present  edifice  was  erected  about  1680,  replacing  the 
very  ancient  one  in  which  Stephen^^  Talbot  directed  he  be  buried. 

Stephen^^  Talbot  married,  probably  about  1465,  Margaret 
,  who  survived  him. 

Children : 

i.  Richardis,  b.  about  1467;  d.  unm.,  according  to  the  pedigree 
by  Randle  Holme  in  1628. 

16.    ii.  George,  b.  about  1470;  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall  and  the  other 
family  estates. 
iii.  William;  was  a  priest  and  d.  unm. 

16.  GE0RGE16  TALBOT,  born  about  1470,  as  eldest  sur- 
viving son  of  Stephen^^  Talbot,  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall  and  the 
estates  in  Tadcaster  and  Pendleton.  He  is  mentioned  as  living 
in  17  Henry  VII.  [1501]  in  the  pedigree  compiled  by  Randle 
Holme  in  1628,  (see  antCy  p.  18.) ;  doubtless  Holme  saw  some  deed 
of  George^®  Talbot  in  1501  which  had  been  preserved  by  his 
descendants.  A  similar  reference  to  George^^  Talbot  appears  in 
the  pedigree  in  the  Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  1664-5,  doubtless 
taken  from  the  compilation  of  Randle  Holme.  (See  ante  p.  17.) 
This  George^®  Talbot  is  also  mentioned  (as  deceased)  in  a  law- 
suit in  the  Court  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  in  1576  between 
his  grandchildren  Margaret,  widow  of  Robert  Aspden,  and 
George^^  Talbot;  the  details  of  this  suit  will  be  given  later.  (See 
posty  p.  25.) 

The  only  other  record  that  has  been  found  of  George^^  Talbot 
concerns  an  unsuccessful  attempt  by  him  to  get  possession  of  the 
estates  in  Slaidburn,  formerly  of  his  great-grandfather  Peter^^ 
Talbot,  as  appears  from  the  following  document: 

*  A  mark  was  13  s.  4  d.  or  two-thirds  of  a  pound.  This  bequest  of 
£16  (or  about  $80)  for  masses  would  be  comparatively  equivalent  to 
over  $800  at  the  present  time. 


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On  24  Apr.  1510,  George  Talbot,  gent.,  complains,  that  his 
great-grandfather  Peter  Talbot  died  about  25  Henry  VI., 
seized  of  divers  lands,  messuages,  tenements,  etc.,  in  Slaidburn 
in  BoUand,  co.  York,  which  should  descend  to  complainant  as 
son  and  heir  of  Stephen  Talbot,  deceased,  who  was  son  and  heir 
of  Richard  Talbot  long  since  deceased,  son  of  said  Peter  Talbot. 
But  the  said  lands  etc.,  and  the  evidences,  scripts,  and  writings 
thereto  pertaining,  have  by  casual  means  come  into  possession 
of  one  Giles  Levesey,  gent.,  who  refuses  to  surrender  them  to 
complainant.  A  summons  is  prayed  for  that  said  Giles  Levesey 
be  required  to  appear  and  answer.  (Chancery  Proceedings, 
Early  Series.) 

No  further  papers  in  this  case  are  preserved.  As  Richard^* 
Talbot,  grandfather  of  the  complainant,  was  only  a  younger 
half-brother  of  Giles^^  Talbot  (eldest  son  of  Peter^^)  through 
whom  the  estates  had  descended  to  Livesey,  it  does  not  seem 
likely  that  the  plaintiff  had  a  good  case.  Even  if  Peter^^  Tal- 
bot had  entailed  the  property  to  his  male  heirs,  doubtless  the 
entail  had  been  broken  by  the  descendants  of  Giles  by  legal 
means  of  fine  and  common  recovery. 

The  above  litigation  is  the  latest  mention  that  has  been  dis- 
covered of  George^®  Talbot  who  probably  died  about  1520, 
certainly  before  1523  when  his  son  Nicholas^^  Talbot  had  suc- 
ceeded to  the  estates.  He  was  doubtless  buried  in  Whalley 
Church,  but  this  assumption  cannot  be  proved,  as  the  parish 
registers  of  this  church  do  not  commence  until  1538. 

The  name  of  his  wife  is  imknown. 

Children: 

17.     i.  Nicholas",  b.  about  1500. 

ii.  Thomas;  m.  Isabella  ,  who  was  bur.   at  Whalley, 

1  Oct.  1560. 
iii.  Richard,  bur.  at  Whalley,  28  Feb.  1541/2;  m.  Isabella 

,  who  was  bur.  at  Whalley,  11  Dec.  1539. 

iv.  Robert;  m.  at  Whalley,  20  Jan.  1538/9,  Joanna  Cooke. 

17.  NICH0LAS17  TALBOT,  born  about  1500,  succeeded 
to  Carr  Hall  and  the  other  family  estates,  and  is  first  found  of 
record  in  15  Henry  VIII.  [1523]  on  a  subsidy  roll  [tax  grant  to 
the  King]  for  Lancashire,  appearing  as  "Nycholas  Talbot  of 
Wyllipshyre"  and  being  assessed  2s.  on  lands  of  yearly  value  of 
40s.  (See  "History  of  Blackburn",  p.  62.)  Three  miles 
north-east  of  Carr  Hall  lie  the  picturesque  ruins  of  Whalley 
Abbey,  which  was  the  grandest  monastery  in  Lancashire  and 


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possessor  of  thousands  of  acres  of  lands  until  the  destruction  of 
its  buildings  and  the  sequestration  of  its  estates  by  Henry  VIII. 
in  1539.  An  inventory  of  the  estates  and  rental  roll  of  the 
tenants  of  Whalley  Abbey,  taken  at  the  time  of  its  suppression, 
shows  that  Nicholas  Talbot  held  of  the  Abbot  of  Whalley, 
Snodworth  in  Billington,  paying  yearly  therefore  1  s.  Snod- 
worth  is  the  upland  farm  adjacent  to  Wilpshire  Moor,  lying 
above  the  estate  of  Carr  Hall;  and  its  name  continues  to  the 
present  day. 

Nicholas^^  Talbot  died  28  Apr.  1547,  and  was  buried  on  the 
same  day  in  Whalley  Church,  as  recorded  in  its  ancient  regis- 
ters. Although  Carr  Hall  is  located  in  Wilpshire  township  of 
Blackburn  Parish,  the  parish  church  of  Whalley  is  a  mile  nearer 
than  that  of  Blackburn  and  the  road  to  Whalley  is  more  pleasant 
and  convenient.  Therefore  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall  preferred 
association  with  Whalley  Church,  and  for  at  least  six  generations 
most  of  their  members  had  sepulture  within  its  venerable  and 
hallowed  walls.  Whalley  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  and  interest- 
ing parish  churches  in  England,  dating  from  early  Saxon  times; 
and  the  present  fine  and  impressive  edifice,  built  as  early  as 
1200,  is  in  perfect  preservation,  having  withstood  through  seven 
centuries  the  devastations  of  civil  wars  and  religious  revolu- 
tions, and  the  ravages  of  the  elements.  Its  parchment  parish 
registers  being  in  1538,  as  early  as  any  in  England,  and  are  com- 
plete and  in  perfect  preservation. 

Details  of  the  property  in  Lancashire  held  by  Nicholas^' 
Talbot  appear  in  an  inquisition  post  mortem  held  5  Sept.  1 
Edward  VI.  [1547].  The  jurors  state  that  he  died  seized  of 
two  messuages  [dwelling  houses]  forty  acres  of  arable  land, 
sixteen  acres  of  meadow,  and  eighteen  acres  of  woodland,  in 
Wilpshire  and  Salesbury;  twenty  acres  of  land  and  2s.  rent  in 
Pendleton;  and  nine  acres  of  land  in  Billington.  They  further 
state  that  the  lands  in  Wilpshire  and  Salesbury  were  held  of 
John  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Salesbury*;  the  lands  in  Billingtonf  were 

*  This  statement  has  caused  much  difficulty,  making  it  appear  that 
the  Talbots  of  Can  descended  from  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury,  and  con- 
flicting with  other  evidences.  But  the  statement  is  clearly  erroneous, 
as  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall  had  derived  that  property  by  marriage  with 
the  heiress  of  the  Cunliffe  family  several  years  before  the  Talbots  of 
Salesbury  acquired  their  far  greater  estate  by  marriage  with  the  great 
heiress,  Isabel  de  Cliderou  (Clitheroe),  which  family  had  never  pos- 
sessed Carr  Hall. 

t  This  was  Snodworth  farm. 


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held  in  capite  of  the  King,  formerly  of  Whalley  Abbey;  and  the 
lands  in  Pendleton  were  held  of  tenure  unknown.  They  also 
state  that  the  said  Nicholas  Talbot  died  28  April  last  past,  and 
that  George  Talbot  is  his  son  and  heir  and  aged  one  year,  eleven 
months,  and  more,  on  the  date  of  the  inquisition.  (Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  Inq.  Post.  Mort.,  vol.  9,  no.  41.)  Besides  the  above- 
named  property  in  Lancashire,  Nicholas  Talbot  also  left  the 
ancestral  property  in  Tadcaster,  co.  York,  on  which  no  inquisi- 
tion seems  to  have  been  held. 

The  marriages  and  children  of  Nicholas^^  Talbot  are  correctly 
given  in  the  pedigree  compiled  by  Handle  Holme  in  1628  (see 
antBy  pp.  18-19),  as  his  statements  are  confirmed  by  evidences 
in  a  suit  to  be  given  in  the  account  of  George^ ^  Talbot.  (See 
post,  pp.  25-26.) 

Nicholas^^  Talbot  married  first  on  4  Feb,  1525/6,  Agnes 
Shuttleworth,  daughter  of  Lawrence  and  Elizabeth  (Worsley) 
Shuttleworth  of  Gawthorpe,  armiger;  she  had  one  daughter,  and 
was  buried  at  Whalley  22  Nov.  1542. 

He  married  secondly,  in  1544,  Anne  Browne,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Evan  Browne  of  Ribbleton,  co.  Lancaster,  armiger; 
she  had  two  children,   survived  her  husband,   and  married 
secondly,  about  1549,  Richard  Sherburne  of  Bayley. 
Child  by  first  marriage: 

i.  Margaret^^^  born  about  1527;  m.  about  1545,  Robert 
Aspden.  In  1549  they  sued  her  stepmother,  her  half-brother 
George^*  Talbot  and  others,  for  a  part  of  her  father's  personal 
estate.  In  1576,  Margaret  Aspden,  then  a  widow,  unsuccess- 
fully sued  her  half-brother  George^^  Talbot  for  the  Carr  Hall 
estate;  and  in  Jan.  1578/9,  he  conveyed  to  her  by  fine  the 
ancestral  property  in  Tadcaster,  co.  York.  (Details  of  these 
matters  will  appear  in  the  account  of  George^*  Talbot). 
Robert  Aspden  d.  before  1576,  but  the  time  of  death  of  his 
widow   Margaret   is    unknown.     Child:  Richard,   b.    about 

1550,  d.  1626;  m.  Worthington,  and  left  a  daughter 

who  was  heiress  to  the  Tadcaster  lands,  according  to  the 
Talbot  pedigree  by  Randle  Holme  in  1628.     (See  ante,  p.  19.) 
Children  by  second  marriage: 
18.    ii.  George^^^  b.  in  September  1545;  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall, 
iii.  Bridget,  b.  abt.  1547;  mentioned  in  the  suit  of  1549;  further 
history  untraced. 

18.  GE0RGE18  TALBOT,  born  in  September  1545,  on  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1547  succeeded  to  the  Carr  Hall  estate 
which  he  held  and  occupied  for  the  long  period  of  eighty  years. 


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until  his  death  in  1628.  During  his  tenure  the  Talbot  family 
of  Carr  Hall  attained  its  greatest  importance  and  prosperity; 
but  soon  after  his  death,  there  commenced  a  series  of  disastrous 
reverses,  due  partly  to  their  steadfast  adherence  to  the  Catholic 
faith,  partly  to  their  support  of  the  Royalists  in  the  Civil  War, 
and  partly  to  an  extraordinary  amount  of  litigation  in  which 
they  were  engaged.  It  seems  doubtful  if  any  other  estate  of 
equal  value  in  England  was  the  subject  of  as  many  lawsuits  as 
was  Carr  Hall  from  1547  until  1709  when  it  passed  out  of  the 
family. 

The  long  series  of  legal  contentions  started  in  the  spring  of 
1549,  when  George^^  Talbot  was  only  three  years  old,  in  a  suit 
brought  by  his  much  older  half-sister  and  her  husband,  of  which 
the  following  particulars  have  been  gleaned: 

In  Easter  Term,  3  Edward  VI.  (1549),  Robert  Aspeden  and 
Margaret  his  wife  and  Bryget  Talbot,  said  Margaret  and 
Bridget  being  daughters  of  Nicholas  Talbot,  late  of  Whylp)- 
shyre,  co.  Lancaster,  deceased,  complain  that  by  the  ancient 
custom  of  the  county,  if  a  man  decease  leaving  a  wife  and 
children,  his  wife  should  have  one  third  of  his  goods  [personal 
estate],  the  executors  another  third,  and  the  children  (except 
the  eldest  son  and  heir)  the  remaining  third.  But  now,  so  it  is, 
the  said  Nicholas  Talbot  died  in  1  Edward  VI.  [1547]  leaving  a 
wife,  the  said  two  daughters,  and  George  Talbot  his  son  and 
heir,  and  leaving  goods  of  over  £80  in  value,  which  have  been 
seized  by  Anne  late  wife  of  deceased,  and  now  wife  of  Richard 
Sherburne,  gent.,  and  by  John  Singleton  and  the  said  George 
Talbot,  the  other  executors,  who  refuse  to  give  the  plaintiffs 
their  shares,  although  requested  in  most  gentle  manner  to  do  so, 
contrary  to  equity  and  good  conscience.  The  plaintiffs  pray 
that  said  Richard  Sherburne  and  Anne  his  wife,  John  Singleton, 
and  George  Talbot,  be  summonsed  to  answer  the  premises. 

The  defendants  answer  that  the  plaintiff  Margaret  was  ad- 
vanced her  portion  at  the  time  of  her  marriage,  and  she  and  her 
husband  Robert  Aspden  claim  all  the  landed  estate  of  said 
Nicholas  Talbot  in  Lancashire  and  Yorkshire,  of  yearly  value 
of  over  £10,  in  right  of  said  Margaret  as  heir  in  tail,  so  she 
cannot  also  claim  any  part  of  her  father's  goods.  The  said 
Bridget  Talbot  is  under  three  years  of  age  and  in  custody  of  her 
mother  who  stands  charged  with  her  portion,  aAd  the  said 
George  Talbot  is  only  four  years  old  so  has  never  administered 
his  father's  goods.     The  said  Nicholas  by  his  will*  bequeathed 

*  No  record  of  this  will  now  exists  in  any  probate  court. 


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all  his  goods  to  his  wife  Anne  and  son  George,  so  his  other 
children  cannot  claim  any  share  in  them.  The  said  John 
Syngleton  merely  paid  the  fees  for  probating  the  will.  All  the 
goods  of  the  said  Nicholas  came  to  the  hands  of  the  said  Anne 
except  those  that  the  said  Robert  and  Margaret  "imbesyled 
and  toke". 

Among  the  depositions  for  the  plaintiff,  taken  at  Preston,  co. 
Lancaster,  18  Apr.  1550,  Edward  Whalley  of  Blackburn,  ae.  70, 
William  Clayton  of  Little  Harwood,  ae.  70,  Richard  Radcliffe  of 
Balderston,  ae.  79,  and  William  Shorrock  of  Eccleshill,  deposed 
that  by  custom  of  the  county  if  a  man  died  leaving  a  wife  and 
children,  his  goods  should  be  divided  into  three  parts,  one  for 
the  wife,  another  for  the  executor,  and  the  third  for  the  children 
(except  the  heir).  Richard  Warde  of  Mellor,  ae.  63,  Robert 
Forest  of  Samlesburie,  ae.  68,  and  Lawrence  Heydock  of  Os- 
baldeston,  ae.  50,  deposed  they  "praysed"  the  goods  of  said 
Nicholas  Talbot  at  £58-6-8. 

By  decree  of  Hilary  Term  1553,  it  was  ordered  that  said 
Rycherd  Sherbourne  and  Anne  his  wife  pay  to  said  Robert 
Aspeden  and  Margaret  his  wife  £10  for  her  portion  of  her 
father's  goods;  but  if  the  executors  of  Ewan  Browne,  gent., 
deceased,  recover  £40  against  the  executors  of  said  Nicholas 
Talbot  by  reason  of  covenants  made  between  said  Ewan  and 
Nicholas  on  31  Oct.  1544,  then  said  payment  to  said  Robert 
and  Margaret  shall  be  reduced  in  proportion.  (Pleadings  in 
the  Duchy  Court  of  Lancashire,  vol.  53,  A-1,  and  Orders  and 
Decrees,  vol.  8,  fol.  439  d.) 

It  will  be  noticed  that  in  the  answer  in  the  above  case  about 
personal  property,  the  defendants  state  that  the  complainant 
Margaret  Aspden  also  had  claimed  the  landed  estates  of  her 
father  Nicholas  Talbot.  No  records  have  been  found  of  any 
such  suit  at  that  time  (1549);  but  nearly  thirty  years  later, 
George^^  Talbot  was  threatened  in  his  ownership  of  Carr  Hall, 
etc.,  in  another  suit  brought  by  his  half-sister,  as  shown  by  the 
following  bill  of  complaint: 

In  18  Elizabeth  [1576],  Margaret,  widow  of  Robert  Aspden, 
deceased,  complains  that  her  grandfather  George  Talbot  of 
Carr  in  Wllpshire,  gent.,  deceased,  was  seized  of  two  messuages, 
lands,  meadows,  etc.,  in  Wilpshire  and  Salesbury,  and  lands 
called  Snodworth  in  Billington  now  in  the  tenure  of  one  George 
Talbot,  son  of  Nicholas  Talbot,  deceased,  and  of  one  John 
Hyndle.    And  being  so  seized,  in  consideration  of  a  marriage 


to  be  had  between  Nicholas  Talbot,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
said  George  Talbot  the  grandfather,  and  Agnes  daughter  of 
Laurence  Shuttleworth,  deceased,  the  said  George  Talbot  the 
grandfather,  did  convey  the  said  messuages  etc.  unto  Tristram 
Yate,  John  King,  et  als.  as  feoffees,  to  the  use  of  said  George  the 
grandfather  for  life,  with  reminder  after  his  decease  to  the  use 
of  the  said  Nicholas  and  Agnes  and  their  heirs.*  On  4  Feb.  17 
Henry  VIEE.  [1525/6],  by  force  of  above  statute,  said  Nicholas 
Talbot  and  Agnes  his  wife  (his  father  George  Talbot  in  the  mean- 
time having  died),  became  seized  of  the  premises  in  fee  tail  and 
had  issue  the  said  complainant  Margaret  Aspden;  and  the  said 
Nicholas  and  Agnes  having  both  died,  said  premises  by  right 
descended  to  complainant  as  daughter  and  heir.  But  so  it  is, 
that  the  evidences  relating  to  the  aforesaid  conveyances  have 
by  casual  means  come  to  the  hands  of  George  Talbot,  son  of 
said  Nicholas  by  a  later  wife,  and  to  the  said  John  Hyndley, 
who  hold  the  documents  and  the  premises.  Complainant  prays 
for  a  summons  to  said  George  Talbot  and  John  Hyndleyf  to 
produce  the  documents  in  court.  (Duchy  of  Lancaster  Plead- 
ings, vol.  99,  no.  A-12.) 

No  other  documents  in  above  suit  can  be  found,  and  the 
plaintiff  evidently  failed  in  her  suit,  as  George^^  Talbot  held  the 
estates  until  his  death  in  1628  and  transmitted  them  to  his 
descendants.  But  it  is  possible  that  George^^  Talbot  made  some 
compromise  with  his  half-sister  as  to  her  claim  to  their  father's 
lands,  as  three  years  after  the  above  suit  took  place,  he  conveyed 
to  her  in  1579  the  ancestral  estates  in  Tadcaster,  co.  York, 
which  had  been  in  the  family  for  about  170  years  and  had  come 
to  the  Talbot  family,  together  with  Carr  Hall,  by  the  marriage 
about  1410  of  Peter^^  Talbot  with  the  heiress  Ellen  Cunliffe. 
This  conveyance  was  made  by  fine,  a  method  of  land  transfer 
used  in  England  nearly  five  centuries,  the  process  being  a  col- 
lusive suit  in  which  by  agreement  the  purchaser  sued  the  seller 
for  the  property  in  question,  and  the  latter  acknowledged  the 
right  of  the  former  to  it,  for  a  consideration.  The  considera- 
tions named  in  such  proceedings  were  fictitious  or  nominal;  the 
actual  prices  did  not  appear. 

*  This  marriage  contract  was  made  by  George  Talbot  and  Lawrence 
Shuttleworth  when  their  children  Nicholas  and  Agnes  were  mere  boy 
and  girl,  the  marriage  taking  place  several  years  later  when  they  had 
grown  to  maturity.  This  practice  was  common  at  that  period  among 
the  landed  gentry. 

t  He  was  probably  the  tenant  of  the  cottage  on  the  Carr  Hall  estate 


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Final  concord  made  in  the  Octave  of  Hilary,  21  Elizabeth 
[1578/9]  between  Margaret  Aspden,  widow,  complainant,  and 
George  Talbot  and  Anne  [Nowell]  his  wife  defendant,  of  one 
messuage,  one  toft,*  thirty-six  acres  of  arable  land,  ten  acres  of 
meadow,  twelve  acres  of  pasture,  and  two  acres  of  wood  in 
Tadcaster  [co.  York];  said  George  and  Ann  acknowledged  said 
messuage,  etc.,  to  be  the  right  of  said  Margaret,  as  those  which 
they  remised  and  quit  claimed  to  the  said  Margaret;  and  said 
George  and  Anne  warrant  the  premises  to  the  said  Margaret 
and  her  heirs  against  the  said  George  and  his  heirs  forever. 
And  for  this  quitclaim,  warrant,  fine,  and  agreement,  said 
Margaret  gave  to  said  George  and  Anne  £40  sterling.  (Feet 
of  Fines,  co.  York,  Hilary  Term,  21  Elizabeth.) 

A  record  has  been  found  of  one  more  suit  in  which  George*^ 
Talbot  was  engaged.  In  1599  he  sued  Edward  Braddyll,  Esq., 
of  Portfield  in  Whalley,  co.  Lancaster,  for  £200.  The  answer 
by  Braddyll  is  the  only  document  preserved  in  this  suit;  but  it 
gives  some  valuable  family  history,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  fol- 
lowing abstract: 

The  answer  of  Edward  Braddyl,  Esq.,  defendant,  to  the  bill 
of  complaint  of  George  Talbot,  gent.,  complainant,  dated  18 
Nov.,  42  Elizabeth  [1599].  The  defendant  saith  that  the  com- 
planiant  hath  admitted  to  several  witnesses  that  the  defendant 
doth  not  owe  him  £200  as  in  said  bill  is  untruly  alleged.  De- 
fendant further  states  that  in  consideration  of  a  marriage  to  be 
had  and  solemnized  between  John  Talbot,  son  and  heir  of  com- 
plainant, and  Dorothy  Braddyl,  daughter  of  defendant,  by  the 
mediation  of  Ralph  Assheton,  the  said  complainant  George  Tal- 
bot agreed  to  convey  and  assure  certain  lands  to  the  use  of  the 
said  John  and  Dorothy,  as  part  of  her  jointure.  (Duchy  of 
Lancaster  Pleadings,  vol.  195,  T.  8.) 

It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  over  eighty  years  later,  another 
George^^  Talbot,  great-grandson  of  the  above  George^  ^  Talbot 
of  Carr,  brought  a  chancery  suit  in  1682  against  his  second- 
cousin  Edward  Braddyll  of  Moreton,  great-grandson  of  the 
above  Edward  Braddyll  of  Portfield,  full  details  of  which  will 
be  given  in  the  account  of  George^i  Talbot. 

In  a  subsidy  (or  grant  of  a  tax  to  the  sovereign  by  Parliament) 
in  1570,  George  Talbot  was  assessed  on  lands  in  Wilpshire  of  the 
yearly  value  of  30  s.  On  the  same  subsidy,  John  Talbot,  Esq., 
of  Salesbury  was  assessed  on  lands  of  yearly  value  of  £21-13-6, 
or  on  nearly  fifteen  times  as  much.    In  a  subsidy  of  1611 ,  George 

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Talbot  paid  16  d.  on  lands  in  Wilpshire  valued  at  20  s.  per  year. 
(See  "History  of  Blackburn'',  p.  87.) 

During  the  sixteenth  century  the  whole  able-bodied  male 
population  of  England  between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  sixty 
were  held  liable  for  military  service,  and  militia  musters  were 
held  every  few  years.  In  1574  a  "Levy  of  Arms"  was  held, 
by  which  the  nobility  and  gentry  were  directed  to  supply 
specified  military  equipment  according  to  their  station.  In 
the  Parish  of  Blackburn,  George  Talbot  was  to  furnish  "  1  longe 
bowe,  1  sheffe  of  arrows,  1  scull,  and  1  bill".  (See  "History  of 
Blackburn",  pp.  71-2.) 

The  Blackburn  Grammar  School  (which  still  continues  in 
active  operation)  was  founded  in  1509,  and  in  1567  was  granted 
a  charter  of  incorporation  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  its  management 
being  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  Board  of  Governors  elected  for 
life.  George  Talbot  of  Carr  appears  as  a  governor  as  early  as 
1586  and  presumably  continued  in  office  over  forty  years  until 
his  death  in  1628.  His  interest  in  this  school  is  further  shown 
in  the  following  record  in  a  subscription  list  of  the  Lancashire 
gentry  in  1601  to  augment  the  school's  endowment:  "George 
Talbot  of  the  Carre,  gent.,  of  his  owne  gyfte,  the  some  of  fourtie 
shillinges,  whereof  twentie  shillinges  for  the  Carre,  and  twentie 
shillinges  for  Wytton".  (See  "Chetham  Society  Publications", 
New  Series,  vol.  Q6,  pp.  ix,  8,  38,  69,  and  116.) 

That  George  Talbot  was  considered  a  reliable  business  man  is 
indicated  by  the  fact  that  in  1607  he  was  appointed  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  great  landed  estate  of  Sir  Thomas  Walmesley, 
Knt.,  an  eminent  lawyer  who  had  acquired  an  enormous  fortune. 
(See  "History  of  Blackburn",  p.  434.) 

Preston  was  in  ancient  times  the  most  important  commercial 
center  near  Carr  Hall.  By  charter  of  1179  this  place  was 
granted  a  borough  [or  city]  government,  with  special  trade 
privileges  to  its  burgesses  [freemen],  and  also  was  granted  the 
right  to  hold  periodically  a  guild-merchant,  which  has  been 
held  once  every  twenty  years  for  at  least  six  centuries,  the  last 
one  taking  place  in  1902.  At  these  guild-merchants,  the  bur- 
gesses enrolled  their  names  and  the  names  of  their  sons  and 
grandsons,  and  a  pageant  and  a  banquet  were  held  with  inter- 
esting ceremonies  of  great  antiquity.  The  burgesses  were  of 
two  classes,  "In  Burgesses"  who  dwelt  in  Preston  itself,  and 
"Foreign  Burgesses"  whose  residences  were  outside  the  city. 
Burgesses  paid  a  fine  (or  fee)  on  their  admission,  and  at  subse- 
quent guild-merchants  they  attended,  and  the  sons  of  burgesses 


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had  special  rights  of  admission  on  account  of  their  birth.  Some 
famiUes  continued  as  burgesses  for  several  generations,  and  the 
recording  of  their  names  every  twenty  years  gives  some  lengthy 
pedigrees  on  these  rolls  which  are  preserved  complete  from  1542, 
and  a  few  earlier  rolls  exist  back  to  1397. 

The  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall  appear  among  the  foreign  burgesses 
on  the  Preston  Guild  Rolls  of  1602  and  1622  as  follows: 

Preston  Guild  Rolls. 
Roll  of  1602. 
George  Talbott  of  Carr,  sworn. 
John  Talbott,  son  of  him,  sworn. 
William  Talbott,  brother  of  him  [John]. 
George  Talbott,  son  of  said  John. 
Edward  Talbott,  brother  of  him  [George] 

Roll  of  1622. 
George  Talbott  of  Carr,  gent. 
John  Talbott,  son  of  him. 
Edward  Talbott,  son  of  him  [John]. 
Thomas  Talbott,  brother  of  him  [Edward]. 
John  Talbott,  brother  of  him  [Thomas]. 

At  the  next  guild-merchant  held  in  1642,  the  Talbots  of  Carr 
failed  to  attend  and  disappear  from  the  rolls. 

George^  ^  Talbot  was  a  lad  of  thirteen  years  when  Queen 
Elizabeth  succeeded  to  the  throne  in  1558  and  firmly  and  per- 
manently established  the  Protestant  Church  of  England,  to 
which  the  vast  majority  of  the  people  of  England  conformed. 
But  a  small  part  of  the  population,  particularly  in  Yorkshire, 
Lancashire,  and  Cheshire,  clung  to  the  old  Catholic  faith,  and 
the  Talbots  of  Salesbury  and  the  Talbots  of  Carr  continued 
steadfast  Catholics  through  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth 
centuries.  Two  of  the  sons  and  several  grandsons  of  George^^ 
Talbot  became  Catholic  priests.  The  Catholics  endured  various 
sacrifices  for  their  convictions,  as  from  1578  to  1791,  no  public 
Catholic  churches  were  allowed  in  England  and  their  adherents 
were  subjected  to  constant  surveillance  and  various  persecu- 
tions like  double  taxation  and  heavy  fines.  They  were  therefore 
obliged  to  hold  their  services  largely  in  private  chapels  of  the 
wealthy  landed  Catholic  gentry,  but  were  generally  buried  in  the 
churches  or  church  yards  of  the  Church  of  England.  From  time 
to  time  lists  of  Catholics,  called  "Recusant  Rolls"  were  com- 
piled, which  state  the  penalties  of  their  recusancy,  most  of  which 
are  now  at  the  Public  Record  Office  in  London.     In  a  Recusant 


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Roll  of  1592,  preserved  among  the  manuscripts  of  the  Marquis 
of  Salisbury,  appear  in  Lancashire,  John  Talbot  of  Salysbury, 
Esq.,  George  Talbot  and  Robert  Talbot  of  Salisbury,  gents., 
and  George  Talbot  of  Carre,  gent.  (See  "Historical  Manu- 
script Commission,  10th  Report",  part  4,  pp.  265-6.) 

George^^  Talbot  was  the  builder  of  the  messuage  or  mansion 
house  of  Carr  Hall  which  still  remains  in  unchanged  general  form 
on  the  old  estate,  so  this  seems  a  desirable  place  to  give  a  descrip- 
tion of  this  interesting  old  dwelling-house.  During  the  sover- 
eignty of  Elizabeth  (1558-1603),  a  great  wave  of  prosperity 
swept  over  England,  and  the  latter  half  of  her  reign  witnessed 
the  reconstruction  and  enlargement  of  old  structures  and  the 
erection  of  new  manor-houses,  mansions,  and  farm-houses,  all 
over  England.  Whether  the  ancient  messuage  on  the  Carr 
estate  happened  to  be  destroyed  by  fire,  or  had  become  so  dilapi- 
dated from  age  as  not  to  be  worth  rebuilding,  has  not  been  ascer- 
tained; but  it  is  evident,  from  its  style  of  architecture,  that  the 
present  "Carr  Hall"  was  a  new  building  erected  about  1580  by 
George^^  Talbot.  His  sale  of  his  Tadcaster  property  to  his 
half-sister  Margaret  Aspden  in  1579  perhaps  provided  the  means 
for  building  his  new  mansion. 

Carr  Hall  faces  the  north-west,  is  built  of  stone,  and  consists 
of  a  central  block  with  two  projecting  wings,  the  favorite  plan 
of  such  houses  built  terrfp.  Elizabeth.  It  measures  about  seventy 
feet  across  the  front  and  thirty-five  feet  in  depth.  The  walls 
are  of  stone,  over  two  feet  thick,  and  the  roof  is  covered  with 
stone  tiles  about  two  feet  square  and  nearly  two  inches  thick; 
the  outside  walls  have  been  kept  whitewashed  in  recent  years. 
The  floor  of  the  first  story  is  paved  with  flagstones  about  two 
feet  square.  The  narrow  mullions  in  the  windows  are  of  stone, 
and  the  ancient  diamond-shaped  leaded  lights  in  the  sashes 
were  replaced  by  plain  glass  less  than  twenty-five  years  ago. 
The  flower  garden  in  front  of  the  house,  surrounded  with  a  five- 
foot  wall,  extends  the  whole  width  of  the  building  and  is  about 
a  hundred  feet  deep  from  the  entrance  gate  to  the  front  door  of 
the  house.  The  writer  visited  the  place  on  November  7,  1905, 
and  spent  the  morning  in  carefully  examining,  measuring,  and 
sketching  the  house.  The  building  shows  its  age  and  is  con- 
siderably the  worse  for  wear;  but  the  central  block  and  westerly 
(or  right  hand)  wing  are  still  comfortably  habitable  as  a  farm 
house.  The  easterly  (or  left-hand)  wing,  originally  containing 
the  great  "hall"  (or  living  room)  and  the  "great  chamber'' 
over  it,  is  in  a  ruinous  condition,  and  used  only  for  farm  storage^ 


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The  accompanying  perspective  drawing  and  plans  show  the 
appearance  and  arrangement  of  the  house  during  its  occupancy 
by  four  generations  of  Talbots  from  about  1580  to  1710.  The 
great  "hall"  (or  living  room)  was  twenty  feet  wide  and  thirty 
feet  long,  with  a  massive  fireplace  at  the  rear  end;  the  "dining 
hall"  was  about  twenty  feet  square  and  also  had  a  large  fire- 
place; and  the  third  hearth  was  in  the  "kitchen"  which  was 
about  thirteen  feet  wide  and  thirty  feet  long.  In  an  ell,  half 
under  ground  and  back  of  the  kitchen,  was  a  "buttery"  about 
twelve  by  fifteen  feet,  reached  from  the  kitchen  by  a  short 
flight  of  stone  steps,  now  well  worn  down  by  the  footsteps  of 
busy  housewives  during  over  three  centuries.  In  the  second 
story  were  the  "great  chamber",  over  the  great  hall  and  of  the 
same  size;  the  "middle  chamber",  over  the  dining  hall  and 
about  fourteen  feet  wide  and  twenty  feet  long;  the  "little  stair- 
head chamber",  over  the  kitchen  and  about  thirteen  feet  square; 
and  the  "other  chamber",  mostly  over  the  kitchen  and  about 
sixteen  feet  wide  and  twenty  feet  long.  All  the  above  rooms  are 
so  named  and  mentioned  in  the  inventory  in  1709  of  the  estate 
of  George^i  Talbot,  the  last  of  the  Talbots  who  owned  Carr  Hall, 
and  great-grandson  of  its  builder  George^^  Talbot.  After  the 
Talbots  had  disposed  of  Carr  Hall,  the  inside  was  altered  to 
make  it  suitable  for  two  families,  by  dividing  the  great  hall  and 
great  chamber  over  it  each  into  two  rooms,  and  by  building  a 
small  new  stair  hall  in  the  front  of  the  left  hand  wing,  for  which  a 
new  small  window  was  cut  through  the  front  wall.  At  the  same 
time,  two  of  the  five  divisions  of  the  great  front  window  of  this 
wing  were  blocked  up,  to  save  tax  on  window  glass.  These 
disfiguring  changes  appear  in  the  cut  which  heads  the  article  on 
Carr  Hall  by  Mr.  Abram,  this  cut  showing  the  front  as  it  exists 
at  the  present  time.  In  1710  Anne  Talbot,  widow  of  George^^ 
Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  sold  the  estate  to  the  trustees  of  Barthol- 
omew Walmesley,  Esq.,  from  whom  it  descended  to  the  Petre 
family  and  still  is  included  in  their  very  large  landed  estate. 
Up  to  1906  a  family  named  Hill  had  been  for  three  generations 
the  tenants  of  Carr  Hall;  but  in  that  year  the  Petres  made  a 
lease  of  the  property  to  a  family  named  Carr  who  have  since 
occupied  it. 

After  owning  and  occupying  Carr  Hall  for  the  remarkable 
period  of  eighty  years,  George^^  Talbot  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
three  years  and  was  buried  in  Whalley  Church,  4  June  1628. 
At  that  period  it  was  a  custom  among  the  nobihty  and  landed 
gentry  to  have  an  officer  or  deputy  from  the  College  of  Arms  to 


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direct  their  funeral  obsequies  with  various  ceremonies  according 
to  the  rank  of  the  deceased,  and  to  draw  up  a  "funeral  certifi- 
cate" which  included  a  pedigree  of  the  deceased  and  account  of 
his  children.  During  the  reign  of  James  I.  and  Charles  I. 
(1603-1649),  Randle  Holme  of  Chester,  as  a  deputy  to  the 
heralds  of  the  College  of  Arms,  was  much  employed  in  this  line 
by  the  gentry  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire;  and  it  is  likely  that 
the  pedigree  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  made  in  1628,  which  remains 
among  his  manuscripts  was  compiled  by  him  from  a  funeral 
certificate  he  prepared  at  the  time  of  the  obsequies  of  George^^ 
Talbot  on  4  June  1628.     (See  aniey  pp.  18-19.) 

George^^  Talbot  married  first,  at  Whalley  Church,  27  June 
1569,  Anne  Nowell,  born  about  1550,  eldest  daughter  of  Roger 
and  Elizabeth  (Paslowe)  Nowell  of  Little  Mearley,  co.  Lancaster; 
the  witnesses  to  this  marriage  were  Thomas  and  Alexander 
Whittingham,  Edward  Mages,  Edmund  Middleton,  John  Turner, 
and  many  others,  according  to  the  record  of  the  wedding  in 
the  Whalley  registers. 

The  Nowells  of  Little  Mearley,  co.  Lancaster,  were  minor 
landed  and  armorial  gentry  and  a  jimior  branch  of  the  more 
important  and  very  ancient  Nowells  of  Great  Mearley  and 
Reade  Hall.  In  the  Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  1567,  Roger 
Nowell  entered  the  following  pedigree  of 

Nowell  of  Little  Merley 

Anns. — Quarterly:  1  and  4«  Argent^  three  covered  cups,  sable,  gar- 
nished  or  [Nowell];  2  and  3.  Gules,  a  pelican  in  piety,  or,  foliage  vert, 
nest  of  the  second  [Gaskill]. 

William  Nowell  of  Mereley,  co.  Lancaster,  == 
second  brother  to  Adam  Nowell  I 

I ! 

Henry  Nowell  of  Little  Mereley,  descended  =p 
of  a  second  sonne  of  the  house  of  Create  Merely    I 

Roger  Nowell  =  Helene,  dau.  of  William 
of  Little  Merely  I  Lyster  of  Meddope,  co.  Ebor.,  ar. 


I 

Christopher  Nowell  s=&  Julyan,  dau.  and  heire  of  William  Gasgyll 


of  Little  Merely 


[Gaskill]  of  Remyngton,  co.  Lancaster,  gent., 
and  of  his  wyf,  dau.  and  heire  of  Robert 
Remington,  co.  Lancaster,  ar. 


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I 

Roger  Nowell  : 
of  Little  Mere- 
ley,  now 
lyving, 
anno  1567. 


Elizabeth  dau. 
of  Thomas 
Pawslowe  of 
Wyswale,  co. 
Lancaster,  gent. 


I  I 

Alexander 
sans  yssue. 
Helene 
maryed  to 


1 

EUzabeth 
maryed  to  John 
Bayly  of  Clyde- 
rowe,  CO.  Lan- 
caster, gent. 


19. 


I  I  I  (III. 

Christopher       John       Anne*         Jane    Grace    Mary  Catherine 

Nowell,  Sonne  2  sonne 
and  heire 

("Chetham  Society  Publications,"  vol.  81,  p.  33.) 

Anne  (Nowell)  Talbot  died  between  1581  and  1587,  having 
had  at  least  ten  children. 

George^s  Talbot  married  secondly,  at  Whalley  Church,  3 
Aug.  1587,  Anne  Holden,  whose  ancestry  has  not  been  learned. 
She  appears  in  a  Recusant  Roll  of  34  Elizabeth  (1592-3)  as 
"Anna  Talbott  de  Carre  ux  Georgii  Talbott,  gen".  (Recusant 
Roll  No.  I,  34  Elizabeth,  mem.  24.)  She  was  buried  at  Whalley 
Church,  13  May  1612,  having  had  at  least  two  children. 

Children  of  George^s  Talbot  by  his  first  wife  Anne  (Nowell), 
recorded  in  the  registers  of  Whalley: 

i.  Nicholas!",  bapt.  31  Mar.  1570;  bur.  15  Apr.  1571. 
ii.  John,  bapt.  27  Mar.  1571;  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall, 
iii.  Thomas,  bapt.  20  Jan.  1572/3;  entered  the  Jesuit  English 
College  at  Rome  in  1591,  was  ordained  a  priest  1  May  1597, 
and  entered  the  Society  of  Jesus  in  1598.  After  serving  as 
penitentiary  at  Loretto,  he  was  appointed  rector  and  master 
of  novices  at  St.  John's,  Louvain,  in  1607.  In  1615  he  was 
sent  to  England  as  associate  to  Father  Blount.  In  1622  he 
was  in  the  Northamptonshire  Mission;  in  1639  in  the  College 
of  the  Holy  Apostles,  Suffolk  District,  and  in  1642  in  the  Col- 
lege of  the  Blessed  Aloysius,  where  he  died  about  1652,  aged 
about  eighty  years.  (See  Foley's  "Records  of  the  Enghsh 
College  of  the  Society  of  Jesus",  vol.  1,  p.  658  and  vol.  7,  p. 
758.) 

Elizabeth,  bapt.  28  May  1574;  living  1616. 
Bridget,  bapt.  11  Nov.  1575;  living  1616. 
vi.  Mary,  bapt.  19  Mar.  1576/7;  Uving  1616. 
vii.  Richard,  bapt.  23  Feb.  1577/8;  became  a  CathoUc  priest; 
Hving  in  1616. 

*  Two  years  after  the  Visitation,  this  Anne  Nowell  married  in  1569, 
George"  Talbot,  as  before  stated. 


IV. 
V. 


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viii.  Dorothy,  bapt.  1  Aug.  1579;  bur.  at  Church-Kirk,  5  May 
1657;  m.  Ralph  Rishton  of  Ponthalgh  and  Mickle-Hey  in 
the  township  of  Rishton,  son  of  WilHam  and  Eleanor  (Char- 
nock)  Rishton,  and  descended  from  an  ancient  family  of  that 
place. 

Children  (Rishton): 

1.  William,  b.  1606,  heir  to  Ponthalgh. 

2.  Anne,  d.  unm. 

3.  Ralph. 

4.  Margaret;  m.  John  Buck. 

5.  Edward,  b.  in  1614,  entered  the  Jesuit  English  College 
at  Rome  in  1634.  At  his  matriculation  he  stated: 
"I  am  twenty  years  of  age  and  son  of  Ralph  and 
Dorothy  [Talbot]  Rishton,  both  of  respectable  families. 
My  father  before  his  death  became  a  Catholic.  My 
mother  is  still  living;  also  four  brothers  and  three 
sisters,  all  Catholics".  He  was  ordained  a  priest  3 
Apr.  1639.  (See  Foley's  "Records  of  the  Enghsh 
College  of  the  Society  of  Jesus",  vol.  1,  p.  659.) 

6.  John,  d.  unm. 

7.  Roger. 

8.  Dorothy,  d.  unm. 

ix.  Francesi»  bapt.  14  Jan.  1580/1 ;  living  1616. 

X.  Catherine,  b.  abt.  1583,  living  1616;  m.  James  Rishton  of 
Mickle-Hey,  a  relative  of  Ralph  Rishton  of  Ponthalgh,  hus- 
band of  her  sister  Dorothy. 
Children  (Rishton): 

1.  Edward,  eldest  son  and  heir,  b.  about  1608. 

2.  Frances. 

3.  Ralph,  b.  in  1612;  matriculated  at  the  Jesuit  English 
College  at  Rome  in  1632,  stating:  "I  am  twenty  years 
of  age  and  son  of  James  and  Catherine  [Talbot]  Rish- 
ton of  Micklehey  in  Rishton,  and  my  parents  are  of  the 
middle  class.  My  father's  relatives  are  heretics  but 
esteemed  for  wealth.  Nearly  all  on  my  mother's  side 
are  Catholics  and  some  of  them  of  good  note,  viz., 
two  of  my  mother's  brothers,  both  of  whom  studied  in 
this  College  and  are  in  the  Society  of  Jesus,  viz.,  Thomas 
and  Wilham,  sons  of  George  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall.  I 
have  brothers  Edward  and  John,  and  sisters  Frances 
and  Anne".  (See  Foley's  "Records  of  the  English 
College  of  the  Society  of  Jesus",  vol.  1,  p.  658.) 

4.  John. 

5.  Anne. 

Children  of  George^^  Talbot  by  his  second  wife  Anne  (Hol- 
den),  recorded  in  the  registers  of  Whalley: 


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xi.  Nicholas",  b.  about  1590;  bur.  10  Apr.  1595. 

xii.  William,  b.  about  1597;  mentioned  in  the  Preston  Guild  Roll 
of  1602;  entered  the  Jesuit  Enghsh  College  at  Rome  13  Oct. 
1616,  stating:  "I  am  nineteen  years  of  age  and  my  parents 
are  of  the  upper  class  of  society.  I  have  three  brothers  and 
six  sisters,  all  Cathohcs".  He  received  minor  orders  in  1617, 
and  was  ordained  a  priest  and  admitted  to  the  Society  of 
Jesus  at  Liege  in  1619.  For  several  years  he  served  in  the 
missions  at  Paris  and  Rouen.  Later  he  was  a  missioner  in 
the  College  of  St.  Ignatius  (London  District)  in  1642,  and  in 
the  College  of  the  Holy  Apostles  (Suffolk  District)  in  1649; 
and  in  1655  returned  to  London  where  he  d.  12  May  1660. 
(See  Foley's  "Records  of  the  English  College  of  the  Society 
of  Jesus",  vol.  1,  p.  659,  and  vol.  7,  p.  760.)  He  was  buried 
in  the  Church  of  St.  Pancras,  London,  where  his  monument 
bears  the  following  inscription: 

Here  lyeth  the  body  of  William 

Talbot,  of  Carr,  in  the  county 

of  Lancaster,  gent.     Who  dyed 

the  2"^*^  day  of  May  in  the  yeare 

of  our  Lord  1660. 

Aged  60  yeares. 

(See  Cansick*s  "Epitaphs  of  Middlesex",  vol.  1,  p.  1.)  Ap- 
parently the  age  on  this  inscription  is  understated  by  about 
three  years. 

19.  JOHN"  TALBOT,  born  at  Carr  Hall,  about  11  P.  M., 
Sunday,  25  Mar.  1571,  and  baptized  at  Whalley  Church  27  Mar. 
1571,  succeeded  to  the  ancestral  estate,  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven 
years,  on  the  death  of  his  father  in  1628.  On  22  Dec.  1628,  he 
was  elected  a  governor  of  the  Blackbiun  Grammar  School,  and 
paid  the  usual  election  fee  of  10  s.  (See  "Chetham  Society 
Publications",  New  Series,  vol.  67,  pp.  165-6.)  After  1642  his 
name  disappears  from  the  school  records  as  attending  the 
meetings  of  the  governors.  Although  he  was  enrolled  under  his 
father  in  the  Preston  Guild  Rolls  of  1602  and  1622,  he  did  not 
attend  the  guild-merchant  of  1642;  so  the  family  lost  their 
citizenship  as  foreign  burgesses  of  Preston.     (See  ante,  p.  29.) 

Being  a  Catholic,  John  Talbot  suffered  the  penalties  of  main- 
taining his  religious  convictions,  as  appears  from  the  following 
entries  on  the  Recusant  Rolls: 

5  Charles  I.  [1629].  John  Talbott  of  Carr,  gent.,  for  the 
rent  of  one  messuage  and  40  acres  of  land  etc.  in  Whilpeshire; 
fine  £10.     (Recusant  Roll  no.  37,  Lancashire.) 

7  Charles  I.  [1631].    John  Talbott  of  Carr  in  the  township 


of  Whilpshire  and  Edward  Talbott  his  son,  for  the  rent  of  two 
parts  of  one  messuage  and  40  acres  of  land  etc.;  fine  £6-13-4. 
(Recusant  Roll  no.  39,  Lancashire.) 

Among  the  manuscripts  of  Lord  Kenyon  are  two  letters  to 
his  ancestor  Roger  Kenyon,  from  the  Talbots  of  Carr.  One 
letter  written  by  John  Talbot  on  18  July  1630,  advises  Kenyon 
to  buy  of  a  man  named  Carr  a  bellows  for  a  lead  smelter;  he 
states  "I  gave  my  smelter  a  noble  a  tunne".  The  other  letter 
written  by  Edward  Talbot  on  10  Sept.  1631,  says,  "Thomas 
Cawcroft  will  give  £3-10-0  for  the  lead  ore  gotten,  and  £3-2-0 
for  the  ore  to  get.  The  sicknesse  is  sore  in  Heptonscale". 
(See  "Historical  Mss.  Commission,  Appendix  to  14*^  Report", 
part  4,  pp.  40  and  46.)  It  is  certain  that  the  Talbots  engaged  in 
lead  smelting,  as  a  kiln  and  a  smelter  at  Carr  Hall  are  men- 
tioned in  the  chancery  suit  in  1682  of  George^i  Talbot  vs.  Ed- 
ward Braddyll.     (See  posU  p.  64.) 

By  indenture  of  24  Aug.  4  Charles  I.  (1628),  between  John^' 
Talbot  of  Carr  of  the  first  part,  Edward  Talbot  his  son  and  heir 
of  the  second  part,  and  Thomas  Holden  of  Witton,  Thomas 
Winckley  of  Billington,  John  Barker,  gent.,  Edward  Rishton, 
and  Thomas  Greenfield,  of  the  third  part,  feoffees,  a  portion  of 
Carr  estate  was  conveyed  to  the  use  of  said  Edward  Talbot 
and  Mabel  his  wife  for  life,  as  part  of  her  jointure,  with  re- 
mainder to  their  heir.  (See  suit  of  Mabel  Talbot  vs.  Edward 
Braddyll  and  Richard  Hurst,  jpost,  p.  41.) 

A  few  years  later,  John^^  Talbot  found  himself  in  financial 
difficulties,  and  he  and  his  son  and  heir  Edward^**  Talbot  placed 
encumbrances  on  the  property,  under  which  the  latter's  son  and 
heir  George^^  Talbot  struggled  for  nearly  forty  years  before  he 
succeeded  in  clearing  the  estate  in  1685.  On  20  Apr.  1634, 
Edward  Talbot,  son  of  John,  mortgaged  a  moiety  [half]  of  the 
Carr  for  ninety  years  to  Thomas  Cockroft,  as  security  for  a  loan 
of  £60.  (See  chancery  suit  of  George^^  Talbot  vs,  Edward 
Braddyll,  post,  p.  63;  and  suit  in  the  Palatinate  Court  of  Lan- 
caster of  Edward  Braddyll  vs.  Thomas  Lawe,  posU  p.  57.) 
Also,  about  1635,  John  and  Edward  Talbot  further  mortgaged 
their  interests  in  the  Carr  to  Thomas  Greenfield  and  John  Crom- 
bock,  as  trustees  in  behalf  of  John  Osbaldeston,  as  security  for 
a  loan  of  £100.  (See  suit  in  the  Palatinate  Court  of  Lancaster 
of  Thomas  Greenfield  vs.  George  Talbot,  post,  p.  47.) 

The  appended  record  of  the  family  of  John  Talbot  is  preserved 
in  the  calendar  of  a  fifteenth  century  illuminated  manuscript 


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breviary,  which  in  1880  was  in  the  possession  of  John  Ingilby, 
Esq.,  of  Austwick,  co.  York. 

Marcius  11.  Anne  Talbotte  borne  this  day  in  y«  morninge  1595 
being  Tuesday,  and  dyed  when  she  was  eleven  weekes  oulde. 

Marcius  23.  EHz.  Talbott  borne  this  day  beinge  Wednesday  1613 
being  foure  in  y«  morninge. 

Marcius  25.  Jo.  Talbot  sonne  of  Go.  Talbott  borne  anno  1571 
about  11  of  y*  clocke  at  noc*  beinge  Sonday. 

Marcius  26.  Anne  Talbott  borne  anno  1601  about  five  of  y*  clocke 
in  the  morninge. 

Aprilis  17.  Margarett  Talbott  borne  anno  1602,  six  of  y«  clocke  in  y« 
morninge  being  Saturday. 

Mains  2.  George  Talbott  was  borne  anno  1597  hora  quasi  octava 
vespere  beinge  Monday. 

Mains  24.  Tho.  Talbott  borne  anno  1603  aboute  foure  of  y«  clocke 
in  ye  morninge  beinge  Tuesdaye. 

Julius  2.     Dorethy  Bradill  maried  to  John  Talbott,  anno  1595. 

Juhus  25.  Edwarde  Talbott  was  borne  anno  1599  post  meridiem 
hora  quasi  secunda  beinge  Wednesdaye. 

Julius  25.  Frances  Talbott  y«  same  daye  prima  hora  post  meridiem 
anno  1610. 

Augustus  2.  Marie  Talbott  borne  anno  1606  about  twoo  of  y« 
clocke  in  the  morninge,  beinge  Saturday. 

September  24.  Briget  Talbott  borne  anno  1612  about  three  of  y« 
clocke  in  y«  morninge  being  Thursday. 

October  3.    Doretty  doughte'  of  Ed.  Bradyll  borne  1572. 

December  13.  John  Talbott  sonne  of  Jo.  was  borne  anno  1607 
about  three  of  y*  clocke  in  the  morninge  in  the  greate  froste  beinge 
Sunday.  (See  "Miscellanea  Genealogica  et  Heraldica",  New  Series, 
vol.  3,  p.  200.) 

The  will  of  Hugh  Sherburne  of  Chipping,  co.  Lancaster,  gent., 
dated  4  Jan.  1640/1,  mentions  his  nephew  Richard  Sherburne 
of  Bailey  Hall,  his  nephew  Adam  Houghton,  his  nephew  John 
Talbott  of  the  Carr,  and  his  cousin  Richard  Sherburne  of  Hig- 
ham.  (Proved  at  Chester  in  Apr.  1641.)  The  testator  was  a 
yoimger  son  of  Richard  Sherburne  of  Bailey  by  Anne  his  wife 
widow  of  Nicholas^^  Talbot  of  Carr,  and  so  half-brother  of 
George^^  Talbot  of  Carr  and  uncle  of  John^^  Talbot  of  Carr. 

The  last  mention  found  of  John"  Talbot  is  18  Apr.  1642  when 
he  attended  a  meeting  of  the  governors  of  the  Blackburn  Gram- 
mar School.  (See  "Chetham  Society  Publications",  New 
Series,  vol.  67  p.  208.)  He  probably  died  soon  after,  aged 
seventy-one  years,  about  the  time  of  the  commencement  of  the 
Civil  War;  but  the  exact  time  of  his  decease  is  unknown. 


He  married  2  July  1595,  Dorothy  Braddyll,  born  3  Oct. 
1572,  and  baptized  the  next  day  at  Whalley  Church,  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Anne  (Asheton)  Braddyll  of  Portfield  in  Whalley 
Parish,  Lancashire.  She  was  buried  on  27  June  1634.  The 
family  of  Braddyll  of  Brockhole  in  the  township  of  Billington, 
Blackburn  Parish,  was  of  great  antiquity  and  derived  the  name 
from  a  manor  called  Bradhull,  located  in  Billington. 

Braddyll  Pedigree. 

Arms: — Argent,  a  cross  lozengy,  vert,  oppressed  by  a  bend,  gobonated, 
ermine  and  azure, 

Thomas*  de  Bradhull  = 
(b.  abt.  1165).    liv.  1199  and  1216    | 

I  II  I 

Roger^  as=  Thomas        Robert  John 

(b.abt.  1195)  Hv.  1246     Uv.  1246  liv.  1246 

d.  bef.  1247 


I  I 

Henry^  =s  Geoffrey 

(b.  abt.  1220)  Uv.  I  liv.  1284 
1247,  1259 


i 1 

Walter*  s^  Alice  de  Dinkley  John 

(b.  abt.  1245)  liv.  |  liv.  1285 

1271, 1273 


T 


i 1 

Henrys  de  Bradhull  =  John 

(b.  abt.  1270)  Uv.  I  liv.  1311, 

1292,1293,  1324;  d. 
1311,  1322  1329 


I 1 

John**  =  Margaret  de  Henry 

(b.  abt.  1295)  Uv.^    Symonstone  liv.  1339 

1332, 1333 


Henry^  de  Bradhull  ^= 

(b.  abt.  1325)  liv. 

1365, 1378 


J 

mil 

J 


I 

Henry>  BradhuU  of  Brockhole  = 
(b.  abt.  1350)  the  first  of  the  family 
mentioned  in  the  Visitation  of  1567 


John'  Bradhull  == 
(b.  abt.  1380)  Uv.  1425 


I 

Edwardio  Bradhull 
(b.  abt.  1405) 


H 


J 


I 

Richard"  Braddyll  of  Brockhole  ==  Margery  dau.  of  W" 
(b.  abt.  1430)  liv.  1460  Harrington 


I 

Johni2  Braddyll  =  Emote,  dau.  of 

(b.  abt.  1455)     I        W^  Pollard 


— i 

William 
a  priest 


Edwardia  Braddyll 
(b.  abt.  1480) 
bur.  at  WhaUey  1552 


T' 


Jennett 
Crombock 


I 

Richard 


1 

William 


I 

John"  Braddyll,  Esq.  =  Jennett 
(b.  abt.  1505)  bur.  at  I     Foster 
WhaUey  18  Nov.  1578 


1 

Richard 


— r 

William 


1554  ' 

Anne  Asheton  =  Edward^^  Braddyll  z=5  Ellen  Starkey 


bui.  29  Dec.  1586 


Johni« 
b.  1557 


"n — 

Jane 
b. 1558 


(b.  1534)  bur. 
6  Oct.  1607 


Lettice 
b.  1559 


Richard 
b.  1560 


Anne 
b.  1562 


Edward 
b. 1563 


I  III  I  I    . 

Ralphi«        Elizabeth  Cuthbert    Gilbert        Stephen      Catherme 

b.  1564        b.  1565      b.  1566        b.  1567       b.  1569        b.  1570 


Dorothy!"  _  John  Talbot         Thomas 
b.  3  Oct.      I    of  Carr  Hall         b.  1574 
1572 


==  Jo 


Margaret 
b.  1576 


Bernard 
b.  1577 


Edward  Talbot  =  Mabel 
of  Carr  Hall         I    Carleton 

Anne  =  George  Talbot  =  Anne 
Ryley  I  of  Carr  Hall  d.l716 
d.l660  V  b.  1624,  d.  1709 


I 
Katherine^"  =  Gilbert  La  we 


b.  abt.  1591 
d.  Aug.  1671 

Thomas  Lawe 


of  WhaUey 


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Children  of  Johni^  and  Dorothy  (Braddyll)  Talbot,  as  re- 
corded in  the  ancient  breviary  before  mentioned: 

i.  Anne2o,  b.  11  Mar.  1595/6;  bur.  at  Whalley  1  June  1596. 
ii.  George,  b.  2  May  1597;  mentioned  as  son  of  John  on  the 
Preston  Guild  Rolls  of  1602;  d.  before  1622,  unm. 
20.     iii.  Edward,  b.  25  July  1599;  succeeded  to  Carr  Hall. 

iv.  Anne,  b.  26  Mar.  1601.  ;  ., 

V.  Margaret,  b.  17  Apr.  1602;  m.  Richard  Sherbui^ne. 
vi.  Thomas,  b.  24  May  1603. 
vii.  Mary,  b.  2  Aug.  1606. 

viii.  John,  b.  13  Dec.  1607;  became  a  Franciscan  monk, 
ix.  Frances,  b.  25  July  1610. 
X.  Bridget,  b.  24  Sept.  1612. 
xi.  Elizabeth,  b.  23  Mar.  1613/14. 

20.  EDWARD20  TALBOT,  bornat  Carr  HaU,  about  2  P.  M., 
Wednesday,  25  July  1599,  is  next  found  on  records  in  1602  and 
1622  when  enrolled  on  the  Preston  Guild  Rolls  under  his  father 
Johni9  Talbot  and  grandfather  George^s  Talbot  (See  ante,  pp.  28 
and  29.)  Records  of  Edward  Talbot  also  appear  in  the  pedigree 
compiled  in  1628  by  Randle  Holme,  in  a  recusant  roll  in  1631, 
and  in  a  letter  to  Roger  Kenyon  the  same  year.  (See  ante,  pp. 
19,  36.)  On  24  Aug.  1628,  he  and  his  wife  Mabel  were  deeded 
a  life  interest  in  part  of  the  Carr  Hall  estate  by  his  father  John^^ 
Talbot;  and  in  1634  and  1635  he  joined  with  his  father  in  mort- 
gaging the  estate  to  Thomas  Cockroft  for  a  loan  of  £60,  and  also 
to  Thomas  Greenfield  and  John  Crombocke,  trustees  in  behalf 
of  John  Osbaldeston,  for  a  loan  of  £100.  (See  ante,  p.  36, 
post,  pp.  41,  63,  47.)  Upon  the  death  of  his  father  about  1642, 
Edward^*^  Talbot  succeeded  to  the  ancestral  estate,  which  they 
had  encumbered  as  above  stated;  but  he  survived  his  father  less 
than  five  years,  dying  before  1647. 

In  a  lawsuit  in  1684-5,  by  Thomas  Greenfield  vs.  George^^ 
Talbot  (son  of  Edward),  George^i  Talbot  stated  that  in  Oct. 
1647,  his  grandfather  and  father,  "the  said  John  and  Edward 
Talbot,  were  then  both  dead,  and  this  defendant's  estate  was 
under  sequestration  for  their  loyalty  to  King  Charles  I." 
(See  post,  p.  48.)  Nearly  all  the  Catholic  gentry  of  Lancashire 
supported  the  King  against  Parliament  in  the  great  Civil  War, 
1642-1645;  and  as  Edward  Talbot  was  then  a  man  about  forty- 
five  years  old  in  the  prime  of  life,  he  doubtless  served  as  an 
officer  in  the  Royalist  army  and  fought  in  some  of  the  san- 
guinary conflicts  of  that  momentous  struggle.  He  certainly 
died  during  the  Civil  War  (1642-1645),  but  probably  not  while 


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in  military  service,  as  his  son  would  probably  have  mentioned 
such  a  supreme  sacrifice  to  the  Royal  cause. 

Edward^^  Talbot  married  about  1623,  Mabel  Carleton, 
born  about  1581  (?),  daughter  of  Laimcelot  Carleton.  (See 
Talbot  pedigree  of  Randle  Holme  in  1628,  and  Visitation  of 
Lancashire  in  1664-5,  ante,  pp.  19  and  17.) 

In  1652,  George^i  Talbot  of  Carr  was  charged  by  the  Common- 
wealth with  "  delinquency"  in  supporting  the  Royal  cause  at  the 
battle  of  Wigan,  25  Aug.  1651;  and  one  John  Lonsdale  deposed 
that  "Mrs.  Mabel  Talbott  of  Carr,  widow,  mother  of  said 
George,  furnished  one  Andrew  Carleton  with  arms  and  sent 
him  to  the  Earl  of  Derby  who  was  then  in  Preston  with  his 
[Royalist]  forces;  and  at  the  fight  at  Wigan  said  Carleton  was 
taken  prisoner  by  the  Parliament  forces,  and  ye  said  Mrs.  Tal- 
bot sent  money  to  relieve  him".  (See  post,  p.  50.)  This 
Andrew  Carleton  was  evidently  her  nephew,  son  of  her  brother 
Ambrose  Carleton.     (See  post,  p.  43.) 

On  17  Feb.  1657/8,  Mabell  Talbott  of  the  Carr  in  Whilp- 
shire,  co.  Lancaster,  widow,  complained  that  she  had  a  life 
interest  in  part  of  same,  being  a  portion  of  her  marriage  jointure 
with  Edward  Talbott,  gent.,  deceased,  by  indenture  dated  24 
Aug.  4  Charles  I.  [1628],  made  between  John  Talbot,  late  of 
said  Carr,  gent.,  deceased,  of  one  part,  said  Edward  Talbot, 
gent.,  deceased,  son  and  heir  of  said  John,  of  the  second  part, 
and  Thomas  Holden  of  Witton,  Thomas  Winckley  of  Billington, 
John  Barker,  gent.,  Edward  Rishton,  and  Thomas  Greenfield, 
of  the  third  part;  by  which  she  enjoyed  same  several  years  after 
the  decease  of  her  said  husband.  But  recently  one  Edward 
Braddyll  and  one  Richard  Hurst,  in  confederacy,  have  tres- 
passed on  complainant's  estate  by  colour  of  deriving  some  estate 
therein  from  George  Talbot,  eldest  son  and  heir  of  complainant, 
and  they  have  seized  and  occupied  part  of  the  capital  messuage 
called  Carr  Hall  and  part  of  the  lands  thereof,  and  have  ousted 
complainant  and  her  servants  from  her  rights  in  the  premises. 
A  summons  is  prayed  for  against  said  Braddyl  and  Hurst. 
(Palatinate  of  Lancaster,  Bills,  6,  vol.  21,  no.  9.) 

"Mrs.  Mabbell  Talbott  of  Carre,  widowe",  was  buried  at 
Whalley  Church,  28  Mar.  1660.  At  her  decease  she  was  nearly 
eighty  years  of  age,  according  to  statements  made  by  her  son 
George^i  Talbot  and  her  daughter  Dorothy  (Talbot)  Parker, 
in  a  chancery  suit  of  the  former  vs.  Edward  Braddyll  in  1682. 
(See  post,  p.  61.)  If  their  statements  were  true,  Mabel 
(Carleton)  Talbot  would  have  been  nearly  eighteen  years  older 


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than  her  husband;  so  her  alleged  age  at  death  was  probably 
somewhat  exaggerated. 

While  his  ancestors  had  found  wives  among  the  gentry  in  the 
near  neighborhood  of  Carr  Hall,  Edward^"  Talbot's  wife  Mabel 
Carleton  was  born  nearly  a  hundred  miles  to  the  north,  being  a 
native  of  Brampton  in  Cumberland,  in  which  county  her  an- 
cestors had  resided  nearly  five  centuries,  deriving  their  name 
as  lords  of  Carleton,  a  manor  in  the  parish  of  Penrith,  co.  Cum- 
berland. At  the  Visitation  of  Cumberland  by  Sir  William 
Dugdale  in  1665,  Sir  William  Carleton,  Knt.,  of  Carleton,  then 
head  of  the  family,  entered  a  pedigree  of  eighteen  generations. 
From  this  Visitation  pedigree  and  other  sources,  the  following 
pedigree  was  compiled  and  printed  on  pages  43-45  of  the 
"Memorials  of  the  Carletons",  by  Capt.  Percival  A.  Carleton 
of  the  English  Army,  who  died  in  1869. 

Carleton  op  Carleton  Hall,  Co.  Cumberland. 

Arms: — Erm.,  on  a  bend  sa,,  three  pheons^  org. 

Baldwin*  de  Carleton  = 

I ' 

Geoffrey^  ^-s 

i ' 

Oduard^  — 
Henry*  =s 

Gilbert^  — = Fitzwilliam. 

I ' 

Williamfi  =  Helen,  dau.  of  Geoffrey  de  Stainton 

(b.  abt.  1215)  I 

Adam'  ==  Sarah,  dau.  of  Adam  de  Newton 
(b.  abt.  1245)  liv.  1286  | 

John*  ^  Dorothy,  dau.  of  Henry  de  Brougham 
(b.  abt.  1275)  liv.  1303  " 


I 

Thomas'  :=  Jane,  dau.  of  Roger  de  Lancaster 

(b.  abt.  1305)  liv.  1325  " 


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Johni"  ^s  Margaret,  dau.  of  John  de  Moston 
(b.  abt.  1335)  Uv.  1356 


'J 


I 
Thomas"  s=:  Alice,  dau.  of  George  Dawbury 

(b.  abt.  1375)  d.  1448  ' 


r 

Thomasi2  —  Isabel,  dau.  of  Gilbert  Brougham 
b.  1423,  d.  1519T 

Thomas^'  ==  Agnes,  dau.  of  Thomas  Wibergh 
b.  1451  d.  1506 

Thomas^*  =  Anne,  dau.  of  Thomas  Layton 
b.  1480  d.  1557 

1 


Thomas^'  ==  Mabel 
b.  1513,  d.  8  Nov.  1587  [Carlisle 


Guy"  =s 


U 


Thomas"  =  Barbara 


Launcelot"  s==  Eleanor       George" 


b.  1547 

d.  14  May 

1598  at 

Carleton 


dau.  of  Hugh    of  Brampton 
Lowther  b.  1549, 

d.  1615 


Thomas^'  Gerard  =s:  Nichola 


b.  1568 
d.  1639 
s.p. 


b.  1570 

d.  before 

1638 


I 
Sir  Williamis 

of  Carleton  Hall. 

b.  1607,  liv.  1665 

Entered  pedigree 

In  Visitation  1665 

He  m.  twice,  and 

had  3  children 


Elliot 


I 

Thomas" 
b.  1585 
a  Royal- 
ist officer 


Kirkby        b.  1559 
dau.  of        Bishop  of 
Roger         Chichester 


I 

Launcelot 

Settled  in 
Ireland 
Gr.-gr.- 
father  of 
Gen.  Guy 
Carleton 
1st  Baron 
Dorchester 


Peter     Roger 


I 

Ambrose*'  s^s 
b.  abt.  1600 
of  CO.  Mon- 
aghan  in 
Ireland 


I 

Andrew*' 


Rev.  Guy 
b.  abt.  1600 
Bishop  of 
Chichester 


,^  I    ,1623_,        , 
Mabel  s^=  Edward 


1581 
1660 


Talbot 
of  Carr 


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The  Carletons  were  staunch  adherents  of  King  Charles  I. 
during  the  Civil  War  (1642-1645),  and  several  of  them  were 
officers  in  the  Royalist  army,  among  them  Sir  William  Carleton, 
Knt.,  and  his  father's  own  cousins,  Thomas,  Launcelot,  Roger, 
and  Rev.  Guy  Carleton  (later  Bishop  of  Chichester),  who  were 
brothers  of  Mabel  Carleton,  wife  of  Edward^^  Talbot  of  Carr 
Hall. 

Children  of  Edward^o  and  Mabel  (Carleton)  Talbot,  born  at 
Carr  Hall: 
21.     i.  George'i,  b.  in  1624;  eldest  son  and  heir. 

ii.  John,  b.  about  1626;  lived  in  Wilpshire  near  Carr  Hall  where 
he  farmed  leased  lands.  In  a  hearth  tax  of  25  Charles  II. 
(1673),  he  was  assessed  for  four  hearths  as  a  householder  in 
Wilpshire.  (Lay  Subsidies,  Lancashire,  132-355.)  He  d. 
intestate  in  1680,  administration  on  his  estate  being  granted 
that  year.  (Probate  Records  at  Chester.)  The  name  of  his 
wife  has  not  been  learned. 
Children*: 

1.  John22,  b.  perhaps  about  1660;  mentioned  in  the  will  of 
his  uncle  George2i  Talbot  in  1708.  (See  post,  p.  .70) 
He  is  claimed  to  be  ancestor  of  the  Talbots  of  Wheelton 
in  Leyland,  co.  Lancaster,  who  were  staunch  Catholics; 
several  members  of  this  family  became  Jesuit  priests 
during  the  eighteenth  century.  (See  "Catholic 
Record  Society",  vol.  4,  pp.  249-50,  vol.  9,  p.  183,  vol. 
14,  p.  330,  and  vol.  16,  p.  424-5.) 

2.  Thomas;  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  uncle  George^i 
Talbot  in  1708.     (See  post,  p.  70.) 

iii.  DoROTHY^i,  b.  in  1628;  as  "Dorothy,  wife  of  Richard  Parker  of 
Great  Harwood,  yeoman,  aged  fifty-four  years",  she  deposed 
on  13  Sept.  1683,  that  she  was  sister  of  George  Talbot  of  Carr, 
etc.  (See  chancery  suit  of  George^i  Talbot  vs.  Edward  Brad- 
dyll,  post,  p.  61.)  She  m.  (1),  at  Great  Harwood,  3  June 
1654,  Ellis  Duckworth,  who  d.  in  1667;  she  m.  (2),  in  1671, 
Richard  Parker. 

In  1702,  Thomas  Duxbury  of  Rishton,  co.  Lancaster,  com- 
plained that  Ellis  Duckworth,  late  of  Harwood,  deceased, 
left  three  daughters,  viz.,  Katherine  who  m.  Alexander  Mer- 
cer, Anne  who  m.  complainant,  and  Jane  who  d.  in  London  and 

*  The  list  of  children,  baptized  in  Blackburn  Church,  assigned  to  the 
above  John^i  Talbot  in  Mr.  Abram's  accounts  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr, 
evidently  belong  to  another  John  Talbot  who  was  of  Cowhill  in  Rish- 
ton and  later  Wilpshire  and  Clayton  in  the  Dale  and  married  in  1665 
Mary  Sudell.  This  John  Talbot  was  bapt.  17  May  1641,  son  of  John 
and  Jennett  (Clayton)  Talbot,  and  grandson  of  Richard  and  Alice 
(Duckworth)   Talbot.      (See  "History  of  Blackburn",  pp.  642-3.) 


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by  her  will  left  £100  between  her  two  sisters,  and  made  her 
master  executor.  Said  Katherine  went  to  London  and  has 
seized  the  whole  legacy,  and  refuses  to  give  complainant  the 
share  of  his  wife  who  d.  two  years  ago.  Katherine  Mercer, 
defendant,  answers  that  her  father  ElHs  Duckworth  d.  thirty- 
four  years  ago  [1667]  leaving  a  widow  Dorothy  and  three 
children,  Katherine  aged  ten  years,  Jane  aged  five  years,  and 
Anne  aged  two  years,  who  m.  (1),  Lambert  Clarke  and  m. 
(2),  the  complainant.  Said  Jane  lived  in  London  about 
fifteen  years,  and  by  her  will  gave  her  two  sisters  £50  each, 
made  her  master  James  Whitchurch  of  London  executor,  and 
d.  in  Aug.  1696.  The  defendant  has  received  only  her  own 
share.  (Palatinate  of  Lancaster,  Bills,  vol.  48,  p.  89;  and 
Answers,  vol.  107,  p.  21.) 
Children  by  first  marriage  (Duckworth). 

1.  Katherine,  b.  abt.  1656;  m.  Alexander  Mercer. 

2.  Jane,  b.  abt.  1661;  d.  in  London  in  Aug.  1696,  unm. 
The  will  of  Jane  Duckworth  of  London,  spinster,  dated 
1  Aug.  1696.  To  sisters  Katherine  Mercer  and  Ann 
Clarke  £50  each.  Brother-in-law  Alexander  Mercer, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cole,  and  Mr.  Todd  the  minister. 
My  master  James  Whitchurch,  merchant  of  London, 
executor.  Proved  31  Aug.  1696.  (Archdeaconry  of 
London.) 

3.  Anne,  b.  abt.  1664;  m.  (1),  Lambert  Clarke;  and  m. 
(2),  Thomas  Duxbury. 

Children  by  second  marriage  (Parker)  : 

4.  John,  b.  abt.  1672;  living  in  1708. 

5.  Alexander,  b.  abt.  1674;  living  in  1708  when  he  and 
his  brother  are  named  in  the  will  of  their  uncle  George** 
Talbot  of  Carr  Hall.     (See  post,  p.  70.) 

21.  GE0RGE21  TALBOT,  born  at  Carr  Hall  about  1624, 
eldest  son  of  Edward  and  Mabel  (Carleton)  Talbot,  on  the 
death  of  his  father  about  1645  succeeded  to  the  ancestral  estate. 
The  earliest  mention  found  of  him  is  in  the  pedigree  compiled 
by  Randle  Holme  in  1628,  when  he  is  stated  to  be  "ae.  5". 
(See  ante,  p.  19.) 

George^i  Talbot  entered  upon  his  inheritance  about  1645 
under  unfavorable  conditions  and  in  troublous  times.  Im- 
poverished by  heavy  fines  for  adherence  to  the  Catholic  faith, 
his  father  Edward^o  Talbot  and  grandfather  John^^  Talbot  had 
been  obliged  about  1635  to  raise  money  by  placing  mortgages  on 
the  estate.  His  father  Edward^^  Talbot  had  fought  for  the 
defeated  King  Charles  I.  during  the  Civil  War  (1642-1645), 


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and  so  made  the  estate  subject  to  further  fines  by  Parliament. 
As  a  climax  to  his  difficulties,  George^^  Talbot  was  unwise 
enough  to  join  the  Royalist  uprising  in  1651  under  Charles  II., 
and  fought  in  the  forces  of  Earl  of  the  Derby  at  the  battles  of 
Wigan  and  Worcester,  in  which  the  Royalists  were  defeated 
and  the  uprising  was  crushed.  For  his  participation  in  this 
rebellion,  the  Carr  Hall  estate  was  sequestered  by  ParUament 
and  subjected  to  additional  fines. 

As  a  result  of  these  complications,  numerous  lawsuits  took 
place  about  the  property,  the  records  of  which  provide  most  of 
the  information  secured  concerning  George^^  Talbot.  To  clear 
his  estate,  in  1657  he  deeded  it  to  his  second  cousin  Edward 
Braddyll  for  a  term  of  thirty-one  years  for  £320,  of  which  £300, 
was  applied  to  pay  off  all  former  encumbrances.  So  from 
1657  to  1685  George^i  Talbot  was  totally  out  of  possession  of 
the  Carr  estate,  and  "very  poor"  as  he  himself  states;  how 
he  maintained  himself  during  this  period  of  nearly  thirty 
years,  has  not  been  determined.  It  is  certain  that  from  about 
1674  to  1676  he  lived  at  Preston,  co.  Lancaster  (then  the  most 
important  seaport  of  northwestern  England).  For  a  few  years 
previous  to  1682  he  lived  in  Ireland  where  his  mother's  relatives, 
the  Carletons,  had  settled  and  were  flourishing;  possibly  he  was 
in  their  employ  or  under  their  patronage.  Previous  to  1670  he 
married  a  second  wife,  from  whom  he  probably  acquired  the 
means  to  bring  a  chancery  suit  in  1682  against  Edward  Brad- 
dyll, by  which  he  redeemed  his  ancestral  estate  of  Carr  Hall  in 
1685,  which  he  thereafter  possessed  and  occupied  until  his  death 
in  1709. 

George^^  Talbot  became  involved  in  litigation  soon  after  he 
succeeded  to  Carr  Hall,  his  first  lawsuit  taking  place  in  1649 
against  his  second-cousin,  the  widow  Lettice  (Braddyll)  Green- 
field. The  circumstances  leading  up  to  this  suit  and  the  con- 
sequences ensuing  are  related  in  another  suit  brought  thirty- 
five  years  later  by  Thomas  Greenfield  Jr.  (son  of  the  above 
Lettice  Greenfield)  against  George^^  Talbot,  of  which  an  ab- 
stract is  herewith  appended: 

Greenfield  vs.  Talbot. 
On  28  Nov.  1684,  Thomas  Greenfield  of  Preston,  co.  Lan- 
caster, gent.,  son  and  heir  of  Thomas  Greenfield,  gent.,  deceased, 
complains  that  about  fifty  years  ago  John  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall, 
gent.,  and  Edward  Talbot  his  son,  both  long  since  deceased,  being 
seized  of  said  estate  of  about  two   [sic]   hundred   acres,   did 


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convey  to  complainant's  father  (or  to  John  Crombock  in  trust 
for  him)  a  part  of  said  estate  for  a  long  term  of  years,  as  security 
for  a  loan  of  £108,  which  was  not  paid  when  due,  so  said  estate 
became  forfeited  to  complainant's  father.  But  by  entreaty  of 
said  two  Talbots  the  mortgage  was  continued  on  interest,  with 
the  estate  in  said  Crombock  as  trustee.  Complainant's  father 
died  in  1647  leaving  complainant  t^en  aged  about  three  years, 
as  his  heir,  who  should  have  succeeded  to  the  premises.  But 
on  the  marriage  of  complainant's  mother  to  a  second  husband, 
one  George  Towlnson,  the  latter  got  possession  of  the  evidences 
in  the  matter  and  of  the  will  of  complainant's  father.  L9,ter, 
one  Edward  Braddyll,  gent.,  and  one  George  Talbot  late  of 
[blank]  in  the  kingdom  of  Ireland,  gent.,  applied  to  the  said 
Towlnson,  and  by  conspiracy  with  him  seized  the  premises  and 
have  since  enjoyed  them,  thus  defrauding  complainant,  who  has 
only  recently  learned  of  his  rights  in  the  property.  A  summons 
is  prayed  for  that  said  George  Talbot  and  Edward  Braddyll  be 
made  to  appear  and  give  information  as  to  the  tenure,  deeds, 
and  mortgages  pertaining  to  Carr  Hall  and  to  their  dealings 
with  said  Towlnson;  also  to  reply  whether  or  not  about  13 
June  1650  Crombock  and  said  George  Talbot  did  not  join  in 
assigning  the  premises,  partly  to  one  Gilbert  Lawe  and  his  wife, 
and  partly  in  trust  to  one  James  Ryley  for  the  use  of  said  George 
Talbot. 

In  May  1685,  George  Talbot,  gent.,  defendant,  answers  that 
complainant  has  no  just  cause,  and  brought  suit  in  collusion 
with  said  Braddyll,  to  vex  and  harass  defendant.  John  Talbot 
and  Edward  Talbot  his  son,  grandfather  and  father  of  defendant, 
held  Carr  Hall  for  life  only,  as  it  was  entailed,  and  defendant  was 
next  heir  as  eldest  son  of  said  Edward.  Defendant  denies  that 
his  father  or  grandfather  ever  conveyed  any  part  of  said  estate 
to  Thomas  Greenfield,  the  father  of  complainant,  or  to  any 
persons  in  trust  for  his  use,  or  that  they  borrowed  any  money 
from  said  Thomas.  But  about  fifty  years  ago,  John  Talbot, 
grandfather  of  defendant,  borrowed  £100  of  John  Osbaldeston 
of  London,  gent.,  who  sent  the  money  by  said  Thomas  Green- 
field, father  of  complainant,  and  entrusted  to  him  to  arrange  for 
security.  Whereupon  said  John  and  Edward  Talbot  gave  a 
mortgage  to  said  Greenfield  and  Crombock  as  trustees  for  the 
use  of  said  Osbaldeston,  as  security  for  said  loan.  As  the  loan 
was  not  paid  when  due,  said  Greenfield  entered  the  premises  as 
trustee  for  Osbaldeston,  and  took  the  profits  therefrom  until  the 


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death  of  said  Greenfield,  when  Lettice  Greenfield,  his  widow 
and  executrix,  attempted  to  set  up  a  title  to  the  premises;  but 
said  Osbaldeston  exhibited  a  bill*  against  her  in  this  court  in 
October  1647,  and  made  out  the  mere  trusteeship  of  her  late 
husband.  Thereupon  said  Lettice  Greenfield  bought  out  said 
Osbaldeston's  claim  of  £100  for  the  sum  of  £80.  And  the  said 
John  and  Edward  Talbot  being  then  both  dead,  and  this  de- 
fendant's estate  being  sequestrated  for  their  loyalty  to  King 
Charles  I,  in  1649  this  defendant  and  his  mother  Mabel  Talbot 
exhibited  a  billf  in  this  court  against  said  Crombock  and  Lettice 
Greenfield,  touching  the  Carr  estate;  and  after  her  reply,  this 
defendant  made  an  agreement  to  pay  the  claim  she  had  bought 
of  said  Osbaldeston,  being  the  loan  of  £100  lent  by  the  latter  to 
John  Talbot,  defendant's  grandfather,  and  to  this  end,  defendant 
borrowed  £50  of  Gilbert  LaweJ  of  Whalley  which  he  paid  to 
said  Lettice  Greenfield.  And  this  defendant  together  with 
James  Ryley  this  defendant's  late  wife's  father,  deceased, 
made  a  bond  to  said  Lettice  Greenfield  for  the  other  £50  to  be 
paid  in  six  or  twelve  months.  Said  £50  was  not  paid  when  due, 
this  defendant  being  then  in  actual  arms  for  King  Charles  11. 
And  defendant's  estate  being  sequestered  for  his  loyalty,  the 
bond  continued  in  force  until  1657,  when  this  defendant  to  pay 
off  his  debts  and  clear  the  sequestration  leased  his  whole  estate 
for  thirty-one  years  to  Edward  Braddyll  for  £320,  of  which  sum 
£80  was  paid  to  George  Towlnson  (who  had  married  [in  1651] 
the  said  widow  Lettice  Greenfield)  to  discharge  the  above  bond 
of  £50  and  repay  said  Towlnson  for  clearing  the  sequestration. 
To  secure  said  Lawe  for  his  loan,  defendant  gave  him  a  lease  for 
thirty-one  years  of  one  cottage  and  twenty-three  acres  of  land, 
which  lease  has  expired.  The  debt  to  Osbaldeston  being  thus 
long  since  paid,  complainant  has  no  cause  for  this  suit.  De- 
fendant has  just  recovered  his  estate  by  redemption  by  a  suit 
in  the  court  of  Chancery  against  said  Edward  Braddyll  who 
has  just  died,  before  the  accounting  was  completed.  De- 
fendant denies  that  the  complainant's  father  ever  had  any 
interest  in  the  Carr  estate  other  than  as  abovesaid,  and  knows 
of  no  will  or  deeds  or  other  papers  of  complainant's  father. 
Defendant  denies  any  conspiracy  with  Towlnson,  Crombock, 
Braddyll,  or  any  one  else,  to  defraud  complainant,  who  has  no 

*  The  documents  in  this  suit  are  missing, 
t  No  documents  in  this  case  can  be  found. 

t  This  Gilbert  Lawe  had  married  Katherine  Braddyll,  great-aunt 
of  defendant.     (See  Braddyll  Pedigree,  ante,  p.  39.) 


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claim  whatever  on  the  estate.  Defendant  denies  ever  discussing 
the  alleged  claim  with  complainant,  although  about  eight  years 
ago  defendant  had  lived  over  two  years  together  at  Preston 
where  complainant  then  lived  and  now  lives,  and  was  frequently 
then  in  company  with  complainant.  Defendant  believes  that 
Edward  Braddyll,  who  was  "cozen  german"  to  complainant, 
conspired  with  complainant  to  bring  this  suit  to  embarras 
defendant  in  his  suit  against  said  Braddyll.  The  said  James 
Ryley,  who  was  father-in-law  of  defendant,  was  merely  a  bonds- 
man for  defendant  on  the  bond  for  £50,  at  request  of  defendant. 
In  the  account  rendered  by  said  Braddyll,  he  charges  this  de- 
fendant with  £80  paid  to  said  Towlnson  to  discharge  the  £50 
bond  due  his  wife,  formerly  the  widow  Greenfield,  and  to  recom- 
pense said  Towlnson  for  removing  the  sequestration.  Defendant 
never  saw  the  mortgage  to  Osbaldeston,  which  was  made  in  the 
youth  of  defendant,  but  on  coming  of  age  was  acquainted  in 
regard  to  it  by  his  mother.  Defendant  asks  that  complainant's 
bill  be  dismissed  with  costs.  (Palatinate  of  Lancaster,  Bills, 
vol.  37,  no.  79;  Answers,  vol.  78,  last  page.)  No  other  docu- 
ments of  this  case  are  preserved. 

Confirmation  of  most  of  the  statements  made  in  the  above 
answer  by  George^^  Talbot  are  to  be  found  in  the  records  of  the 
Commissioners  for  Sequestration  who  proceeded  against  him 
for  his  "delinquency"  in  taking  part  in  the  unsuccessful  Royal- 
ist insurrection  in  1651.  At  the  time  of  these  sequestration 
proceedings  in  1652,  George^^  Talbot  naturally  denied  his  par- 
ticipation in  this  rebellion;  but  as  he  was  convicted  and  se- 
questered, and  as  thirty  years  later,  when  the  Stuart  dynasty 
had  been  restored,  he  claimed  to  have  served  the  King,  there 
can  be  no  doubt  that  he  did  so.  The  following  abstracts  have 
been  secured  giving  particulars  of  his  sequestration. 

Examinations  taken  before  the  Commissioners  for  Seques- 
trations in  the  County  of  Lancaster,  touching  the  delinquency  of 
George  Talbot  of  Carr,  gent. 

1.  John  Mitton  of  Preston,  yeoman,  deposeth:  that  in 
August  last,  when  the  Earl  of  Derby  and  his  forces  lay  in  Pres- 
ton, deponent  saw  the  said  George  Talbot  frequently  ride  among 
said  forces  armed  with  a  long  tuke  rapier;  but  deponent  know- 
eth  not  whether  he  had  any  command.     Sworn  27  Feb.  1651/2. 

2.  Thomas  Loynsdale  of  Whilpshire,  tanner,  deposeth:  that 
when  the  Earl  of  Derby  invaded  this  county  with  his  forces  last 
August,  he  knoweth  that  Mr.  George  Talbot  of  Carr  was  then 
in  arms  under  the  said  Earl,  trailing  a  pike,  and  he  came  not 


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home  again  until  after  Wigan  fight.  Sworn  24  Mar.  1651/2. 
3.  John  Lonsdale  of  Billington,  tanner,  deposeth:  that  when 
the  Earl  of  Derby  was  in  this  county  with  his  forces,  Mrs.  Mabel 
Talbot  of  Carr  in  Whilpshire,  widow,  mother  of  said  George 
Talbot,  furnished  one  Andrew  Carleton  with  arms  and  sent  him 
to  the  Earl  who  was  then  in  Preston  with  his  forces;  and  at  the 
fight  at  Wigan  said  Carleton  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Parlia- 
ment forces,  and  ye  said  Mrs.  Talbot  sent  money  to  relieve  him. 
Sworn  24  Mar.  1651/2. 

4c  4c  :|c  He  9|c 

8.  Margaret  wife  of  Thomas  Lonsdale  of  Whilpshire,  de- 
poseth: that  she  heard  Mrs.  Anne,  wife  of  George  Talbot  of 
Carr,  gent.,  affirm  that  her  husband  the  said  George  was  at 
Preston  and  had  a  pike;  and  the  Sunday  before  the  Earl  of 
Derby  went  from  Preston  to  the  fight  at  Wigan,  the  said  George 
Talbot  was  then  to  have  a  horse  from  the  said  Earl  and  to  be 
listed  in  the  said  Earl's  own  troop;  and  she  further  saith  that  the 
Wednesday  after  the  fight  at  Wigan,  the  said  Anne  Talbot  went 
to  look  for  the  said  George  Talbot  to  come  home,  who  came 
home  that  night.*  Sworn  9  Feb.  1652/3.  (State  Papers,  Inter- 
regnum, A.  163-88.) 

Depositions  of  witnesses  taken  at  Ormskirk  on  30  Apr.  1655, 
on  behalf  of  George  Talbot  of  Carr. 

1.  Thomas  Walkden  of  Blackburn  deposes:  that  he  well 
knoweth  said  George  Talbot  whom  he  conceives  to  be  about 
twenty-six  years  of  age  and  of  middle  stature.  That  in  August 
1651  when  the  Earl  of  Derby's  forces  lay  about  Preston,  de- 
ponent was  taken  prisoner  at  Clitheroe  and  carried  to  Preston 
on  the  Thursday  before  the  battle  at  Wigan.  That  at  Preston 
deponent  did  see  said  George  Talbot  and  speak  with  him  in  the 
street,  but  he  did  not  see  said  Talbot  carry  any  weapons. 

3.  Anne  Atkinson,  wife  of  Thomas  Atkinson  of  Walton  in  the 
Dale,  aged  fifty-six  years  deposeth:  that  she  well  knoweth 
George  Talbot  of  Carr  who  is  a  young  man.  That  she,  living 
at  Lowechurch  in  Walton  in  August  1651,  did  see  said  Talbot 
going  along  afoot  through  the  highway  near  her  house,  in  the 
company  of  two  soldiers  of  the  Earl's  forces  who  had  taken  said 
Mr.  Talbot  prisoner;  but  said  Talbot  bore  no  weapons. 


*  The  Battle  of  Wigan  was  fought  on  Monday  25  Aug.  1651. 


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7.  Edward  Rishton  of  Micklehey,  gent.,  aged  forty  years, 
deposeth:  that  he  well  knows  said  George  Talbot  who  is  now 
about  twenty-six  years  of  age.  .  .  .  That  said  Talbot 
was  not  in  actual  arms  with  the  late  King,  nor  with  the  Earl  of 
Derby  in  August  1651;  but  he  believes  said  Talbot  went  to 
Preston  at  that  time  about  his  private  occasions,  and  that  in  his 
journey  thither  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Earl's  soldiers  at 
Lowechurch.     (State  Papers,  Interregnum,  A.  163-91.) 

The  flimsy  excuses  offered  by  the  witnesses  for  the  defendant 
were  unavailing,  and  the  estate  of  George^^  Talbot  was  seques- 
tered; but  the  amount  of  the  fine  levied  to  remove  the  seques- 
tration has  not  been  found  of  record.  During  the  course  of 
these  proceedings,  George  Towlnson  and  Lettice  (Braddyll- 
Greenfield)  his  wife  (who  are  mentioned  in  the  suit  in  1684-5 
of  Thomas  Greenfield  vs.  George^^  Talbot,  previously  given), 
petitioned  the  Commissioners  of  Sequestration  as  to  their  claim 
against  George^^  Talbot,  as  appears  from  the  following  docu- 
ments: 

George  Towlnson  of  Witton,  co.  Lancaster,  and  Lettice  his 
wife,  complain  that  George  Talbot  of  Carr,  gent.,  and  James 
Ryley  of  Rawshaw*,  yeoman,  by  bond  dated  13  June  1650, 
were  jointly  bound  in  £100  for  the  payment  of  £50  before  13 
Feb.  next  ensuing;  but  they  defaulting  payment  and  said 
Ryley  going  for  Ireland,  your  petitioners  brought  an  action  at 
law  against  said  Talbot  and  at  the  general  sessions  held  at 
Lancaster  11  Mar.  1651/2,  obtained  judgment  for  said  £100  and 
63  s.  costs.  Thereupon  a  moiety  of  Talbots  lands  were  ex- 
tended [attached] ;  but  the  Commissioners  for  Sequestration  have 
ordered  his  whole  estate  to  be  sequestered  to  the  Commonwealth 
for  his  delinquency  in  the  late  war,  and  have  endeavored  to  out 
your  petitioners  who  ask  for  use  of  Talbot's  estate  as  security 
for  their  judgment. 

Examination  of  witnesses  at  Preston,  15  Sept.  1653. 

1.  William  Wall  of  Preston,  gent.,  aged  thirty-six  years, 
under-sheriff,  deposeth:  that  on  an  execution  obtained  by  said 
Towlnson  against  said  Talbot,  deponent  on  29  Mar.  1653  held 
an  inquisition  on  the  estate  of  said  Talbot  and  found  that  he 
held  estates  in  Wilpshire,  the  moiety  whereof  was  granted  to 
George  Towlnson  for  satisfaction  of  said  judgment. 

2.  Richard  Craven  of  Dinkley,  aged  fifty-three  years  deposeth : 
that  he  was  present  when  George  Talbot  of  Carr  and  James 

*  A  hamlet  near  Oswaldtwistle  in  Church  Kirk. 


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Ryley  of  Rawkshaw  did  sign  a  bond  of  £100  for  the  payment  of 
£50  at  a  day  long  since  past. 

3.  Edward  Rishton  of  Micklehey,  yeoman,  aged  forty-five 
years,  deposeth:  that  he  knows  the  Towlnsons  and  has  known 
George  Talbot  of  Carr  for  twenty-five  years.  He  knows  that 
George  Hindle  and  John  Sharpies  of  Blackburn  did  enter  the 
estates  late  of  George  Talbot,  then  in  possession  of  said  Towln- 
son  and  his  wife,  by  pretence  of  an  order  from  the  Commissioners 
of  Sequestration,  and  did  put  the  Towlnsons  and  did  seize  the 
estate  for  the  use  of  the  Commonwealth,  on  account  of  the  sup- 
posed delinquency  of  said  Talbot.  He  heard  Talbot  confess  a 
debt  of  £50  to  Towlnson.  The  said  Ryley  went  into  Ireland 
where  he  yet  remains,  and  before  he  went  to  Ireland  he  sold 
all  his  goods.     (State  Papers,  Interregnum.) 

By  1656  the  Carr  estate,  consisting  of  the  Hall,  two  cottages, 
and  about  one  hundred  and  three  acres  of  land,  seemed  almost 
hopelessly  encumbered.  Mabel  Talbot,  mother  of  George,  held 
as  dower  for  life  part  of  the  Hall  and  about  forty  acres  of  land; 
one  cottage  and  about  twenty-three  acres  of  land  had  been 
leased  to  Gilbert  Lawe,  for  thirty-one  years  from  1650,  for  a 
loan  of  £50;  the  other  cottage  and  about  three  acres  of  land  were 
leased  to  1678  to  Richard  Hurst;  about  seventeen  acres  of  land 
were  held  by  George  Towlnson  as  security  for  £50;  and  the  re- 
maining twenty  acres  and  rest  of  the  Hall  were  leased  for 
ninety-nine  years  from  1634  to  Thomas  Cockroft,  as  security 
for  £60.  In  addition  there  was  the  sequestration  fine,  the 
amount  of  which  does  not  appear.  The  condition  of  affairs 
was  most  discouraging  for  George^^  Talbot  who  probably  lived 
with  his  mother  in  her  dower  part  of  the  estate,  until  her  decease 
in  1660.  But  he  was  evidently  a  man  of  perseverance  with  a 
determination  to  eventually  redeem  his  ancestral  estate.  There- 
fore, in  1657  he  concluded  a  bargain  with  his  second-cousin 
Edward  Braddyll,  whereby  he  conveyed  to  Braddyll  the  whole 
Carr  estate  (including  the  reversion  of  the  dower  of  his  mother 
Mabel  Talbot)  for  a  term  of  thirty-one  years,  for  a  loan  of  £320, 
of  which  sum  £300  was  applied  to  pay  off  the  sequestration  fine 
and  the  claims  of  Towlnson  and  Cockroft.  The  conveyance 
to  Braddyll  was  made  by  fine,  a  legal  process  of  land  transfer 
used  five  centuries  in  England,  which  was  in  the  nature  of  a 
fictitious  and  collusive  lawsuit,  by  which  the  grantee,  termed 
the  querant  (plaintiff),  sued  the  grantor,  termed  the  deforciant 
(defendant),  for  the  premises  agreed  to  be  conveyed,  and  the 
deforciant  acknowledged  the  premises  to  rightly  belong  to  the 


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querant,  for  a  consideration.  The  actual  conditions  of  these 
transfers,  however,  are  not  apparent  from  the  records  of  these 
fines,  and  the  considerations  stated  are  merely  nominal. 

The  following  documents  give  a  complete  record  of  the  inter- 
esting process  of  a  transfer  of  land  by  fine.  Of  course  the  ex- 
cusing of  the  deforciants  from  attending  court  to  answer  the 
querant,  on  account  of  alleged  infirmity  of  body,  was  simply  the 
legal  technicality  used  to  avoid  the  needless  waste  of  time  and 
expense  to  attend  court  to  defend  a  collusive  case. 

Edward  Braddyll  vs.  George  Talbot. 

Oliver  Lord  Protector  of  the  Dominion  of  England  and  Scot- 
land &  Ireland  and  the  dominions  thereto  belonginge.  To  the 
Sheriffe  of  Lancaster  greetinge.  Command  George  Talbot  and 
Anne  his  wife  that  Justly  and  without  delay  they  would  with 
Edward  Braddill  the  Covenant  amongst  them  made  of  one  mes- 
suage two  cottages  one  water  corne  milne  three  score  acres  of 
Land  sixteen  acres  of  meadow  twentie  acres  of  pasture  tenn 
acres  of  wood,  three  acres  of  mosse,  and  Common  of  pasture 
for  all  cattle  with  the  appurtenances  in  Wilpshire  and  Billington. 
And  unless  they  will  doe  it  And  the  said  Edward  Braddill  shall 
secure  you  of  prosecuting  his  complaint,  then  summon  by  good 
summoners  the  said  George  Talbot  and  Anne  his  wife,  that  they 
be  before  our  Justices  at  Lancaster  on  ye  first  day  of  the  next 
generall  Session  of  Assizes  there  to  be  houlden  to  showe  where 
they  will  not  doe  it,  and  have  you  there  the  Summoners  and  this 
writt.  Witness  our  self e  at  Lancaster  the  tenth  day  of  march  in 
ye  yeare  of  our  Lord  MDCLVI.  Fell. 

Oliver  Lord  Protector  of  ye  Commonwealth  of  England,  Scot- 
land, &  Ireland  and  the  Dominions  thereto  belonging.  To 
Sir  John  Talbot  Knt,  Roger  Nowell  Esq.,  Thos.  Braddyll  Esq., 
Tempest  Slinger  and  Richard  Waddington,  gents.; 

Whereas  a  writt  of  Covenant  dependeth  before  the  Justices 
at  Lancaster  Betweene  Edward  Braddyll  demandant  and 
George  Talbott  and  Anne  his  wife  Deforceants  of  One  mes- 
suage two  Cottages,  one  Water  corne  Milne,  three  score  acres 
of  Land  sixteene  acres  of  meadowe  twenty  acres  of  pasture 
tenn  acres  of  Wood  three  acres  of  Mosse  &  common  of  pasture 
for  all  Cattle  with  the  appurtenances  in  Wilpshire  and  Billing- 
ton. A  flyne  whereof  is  to  be  levied  amongst  them  before  the 
said  Justices  at  Lancaster  accordinge  to  ye  Lawe  &  Custome  of 
the  said  County  Pallatyne  of  Lancaster,  and  the  said  George 
Talbott  &  Anne  are  soe  infirme  that  without  great  danger  of 


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their  bodyes  (as  we  are  given  to  understand)  they  are  not  able 
to  travell  to  Lancaster  by  the  day  contained  in  the  said  writt  to 
make  aknowledgements  which  are  required  in  this  behalf,  We 
pittieinge  the  condition  of  the  said  George  Talbot  &  Anne  have 
given  you  two  or  more  of  you,  power  to  take  the  knowledge- 
ments  which  the  said  George  Talbott  and  Anne  shall  willingly 
make  of  the  premises  before  you  two  or  more  of  you;  And  there- 
fore wee  command  you,  two  or  more  of  you,  that  you  personally 
cominge  to  the  said  George  Talbott  &  Anne  his  wife  doe  take 
their  aforesaid  acknowledgements.  And  when  you  have  taken 
them  then  doe  you  certifie  the  Justices  at  Lancaster  thereof 
distinctly  and  plainly  under  the  scales  of  you,  two  or  more  of 
you.  That  then  the  said  ffyne  among  the  said  parties  may  be 
levied  of  the  premises  before  the  said  Justices  at  Lancaster 
aforesaid  accordinge  to  the  lawe  &  custom  aforesaid,  sendinge 
to  the  said  Justices  this  writte.  Witness  ourseK  at  Lancaster 
the  xxv*^  day  of  March  in  the  yere  of  our  Lord,  One  thousand 
sixe  himdred  fifty  and  seaven.  Fell. 

Lane.  Assizes.  Command  George  Talbott  and  Anne  his 
wife  that  Justly  they  keepe  with  Edward  Braddyll  the  covenant 
of  one  Messuage,  Two  cottages,  one  water  corne  Milne,  Three 
Score  Acres  of  lande,  Sixteene  Acres  of  meadowe,  Twentie 
Acres  of  pasture,  ten  Acres  of  wood.  Three  Acres  of  Mosse  & 
Common  of  pasture  for  all  Cattle  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Wilpshire  &  Billington  and  Unless  etc. — 

And  the  agreement  is  such  that  the  sayd  George  &  Anne  have 
acknowledged  the  aforesayd  tenements  &  common  of  pasture 
with  the  appurtenances  to  be  the  right  of  him  the  sayd  Edward 
as  those  which  the  said  Edward  hath  of  the  gifte  of  the  sayd 
George  &  Anne. 

And  the  same  they  hath  remised  &  quitclaimed  from  them  the 
sayd  George  &  Anne  &  their  heires  to  the  aforesayd  Edward  & 
his  heires  forever.  And  moreover  the  sayd  George  &  Anne  have 
granted  for  them  &  the  heires  of  the  sayd  George  that  they 
will  warrant  to  the  sayd  Edward  &  his  heires  the  aforesayd 
tenements  &  common  of  pasture  with  the  appurtenances  against 
them  the  sayd  George  &  Anne  and  the  heires  of  the  sayd  George 
forever. 


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And  for  this  etc — 

Taken  and  acknowledged  at  Whalley  the  26*^  day  of  March 
in  the  year  of  our  lord  1657,  when  the  sayd  Anne  was  privately 
examined  and  did  willingly  consent  hereunto  before  us : 
Thos.  Braddyll,  Rich:  Waddington. 

This  is  the  final  agreement  made  in  the  Court  at  Lancaster 
on  Saturday  the  eight  and  twentieth  day  of  March  in  the  yeare  of 
our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  fifty  seven,  Before  John 
Parker  one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer  of  the  Lord  Protector 
and  Erasmus  Earle  Serjeant  at  Law  Justices  at  Lancaster,  and 
others  then  and  there  present.  Betweene  Edward  Braddill 
plaintife  And  George  Talbott  and  Anne  his  wife  deforceants 
of  one  Messuage  two  Cottages  one  water  Corne  Milne  three  score 
acres  of  land  sixteene  acres  of  meadow  twentie  acres  of  pasture 
tenn  acres  of  wood  three  acres  of  mosse  and  Common  of  pasture 
for  all  Cattle  with  the  appurtenances  in  Wilpshire  and  Billing- 
ton.  Whereupon  a  plea  of  Covenant  was  summoned  betweene 
them  in  the  same  Court  that  is  to  saye 

That  the  said  George  and  Anne  have  acknowledged  the  afore- 
said Tenements  and  Common  of  pasture  with  the  appurtenances 
to  be  the  right  of  him  the  said  Edward  As  those  which  the  said 
Edward  hath  of  the  gift  of  the  said  George  and  Anne  And  the 
same  they  have  remised  and  quitclaimed  from  them  the  said 
George  and  Anne  and  their  heires  to  the  aforesaid  Edward  and 
his  heires  forever.  And  moreover  the  said  George  and  Anne 
have  granted  for  them  and  the  heires  of  the  said  George  that 
they  will  warrant  to  the  said  Edward  and  his  heires  the  aforesaid 
tenements  and  Common  of  pasture  with  the  appurtenances 
against  them  the  said  George  and  Anne  and  the  heires  of  the 
said  George  forever.  And  for  this  acknowledgement,  remis- 
sion, quitclayme,  warrantie,  fyne,  and  agreement  the  said 
Edward  hath  given  to  the  said  George  and  Anne  one  hundred 
sixtie  six  pounds,  thirteene  shillings  and  four  pence  sterlinge. 
(Palatinate  of  Lancaster  Fines,  Lent  Term,  1657,  bundle  160, 
no.  40.) 

Edward  Braddyll  immediately  took  up  his  residence  in  Carr 
Hall  in  the  spring  of  1657,  occupying  most  of  the  mansion. 
The  five  families  of  Edward  Braddyll,  Mabel  Talbot,  George 
Talbot,  Gilbert  Lawe,  and  Richard  Hurst,  were  now  crowded 
into  the  Carr  estate,  and  disagreements  among  them  naturally 
arose.  In  less  than  a  year,  Mabel  Talbot  brought  a  suit  on  17 
Feb.  1657/8,  in  the  Palatinate  Court  of  Lancaster  against 
Braddyll  and  Hurst  for  encroaching  on  her  part  of  the  property, 


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details  of  which  have  been  previously  given.  (See  ante, 
p.  41.)  After  the  death  of  Mabel  Talbot  in  1660,  Braddyll  took 
possession  of  the  portion  of  the  estate  she  had  occupied,  and  her 
son  George^i  Talbot  must  also  have  soon  removed;  but  where  he 
then  located  has  not  been  learned,  his  next  known  residence  being 
in  Preston  in  1674.  (See  ante,  p.  49.)  At  the  same  time,  Brad- 
dyll found  means  to  make  conditions  so  uncomfortable  for  his 
great-aunt  Katherine  (Braddyll)  Lawe  and  also  for  Richard 
Hurst,  that  they  were  induced  to  lease  their  parts  of  the  prem- 
ises to  him;  so  from  1660  Edward  Braddyll  seems  to  have  oc- 
cupied the  whole  estate  for  several  years,  and  he  was  assessed 
for  three  hearths  there  in  the  hearth  tax  of  25  Charles  II. 
(1673).  (Lay  Subsidies,  Lancashire,  132-355.)  Later  in  this 
year  he  leased  the  premises  for  £40  a  year  to  Burton  Shuttle- 
worth,  who  held  them  until  1680.  (See  post,  p.  63.)  In  1682 
George^^  Talbot  started  a  chancery  suit  against  Braddyll  to 
recover  the  estate  by  redemption,  in  which  suit  he  was  successful 
as  will  be  described  later. 

According  to  a  statement  of  Edward  Braddyll,  he  was  obliged 
to  pay  a  fine  of  £40  at  the  time  of  the  decease  of  Mabel  Talbot, 
before  he  could  take  over  her  part  of  the  estate,  as  she  had  been 
convicted  and  fined  that  amount  for  recusancy.    (See  post,  p.  60.) 

The  next  known  litigation  in  connection  with  Carr  Hall  oc- 
curred in  1672,  between  Edward  Braddyll  and  Thomas  Lawe, 
son  and  heir  of  Gilbert  and  Katherine  (Braddyll)  Lawe.  The 
appended  documents  give  details  of  this  case. 

Edward  Braddyll  vs.  Thomas  Lawe. 
In  May  1672,  Edward  Braddyll,  gent.,  complains  that  about 
twenty-one  years  ago  one  George  Talbot,  gent.,  leased  the  part 
of  his  estate  of  Carr  Hall  called  "Snodworth"  to  one  Gilbert 
Lawe  and  Katherine  his  wife  for  thirty-one  years  for  £80. 
Later  complainant  acquired  the  remainder  of  the  Carr  Hall 
estate  from  said  Talbot  on  an  understanding  with  said  Gilbert 
and  Katherine  Lawe  that  they  would  give  up  their  lease  to 
complainant  for  an  annuity  of  £8-8-0,  and  on  the  death  of  the 
longest  liver  of  them  said  Snodworth  to  remain  to  complainant. 
Said  Gilbert  died  first,  intestate,  and  later  his  widow  Katherine 
died  intestate,  and  now  one  Thomas  Lawe,  son  of  Gilbert  and 
administrator  of  said  Katherine,  claims  said  annuity  was  to 
extend  for  thirty-one  years,  and  has  sued  this  complainant  in 
the  common  law  to  recover  on  bonds  given  to  secure  the  an- 
nuity. A  summons  is  asked  for  against  said  Thomas  Lawe. 
(Palatinate  of  Lancaster,  Bills,  vol.  29,  p.  72.) 


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Thomas  Lawe,  defendant,  answers  that  said  George  Talbot 
leased  part  of  Carr  estate  to  Gilbert  and  Katherine  Lawe  for 
thirty-one  years,  and  later  the  complainant  bought  the  rest  of 
said  estate  from  said  Talbot.  Defendant  denies  the  Lawes 
agreed  to  surrender  their  lease  to  Braddyll  for  a  life  annuity. 
They  occupied  the  leased  premises  until  the  death  of  Gilbert 
Lawe  [in  1661],  and  then  complainant  abused  and  harrassed  the 
said  Katherine,  so  she  finally  agreed  to  rent  the  premises  to  com- 
plainant for  £8-8-0  per  year  during  the  remainder  of  the  term 
of  thirty-one  years;  and  bonds  for  each  year  of  the  residue  of 
the  thirty-one  years  were  drawn  up  by  Thomas  Braddyll  of 
Portfield,  brother  of  complainant,  to  secure  said  payments. 
Defendant  denies  there  were  any  conditions  or  agreements 
other  than  are  contained  in  the  bonds. 

Depositions  for  complainant,  27  Sept.  1672. 

William  Cockroft  of  Wadsworth  in  Heptonstall,  co.  York, 
yeoman,  aged  about  fifty-nine  years,  deposeth:  that  he  has 
known  complainant  and  defendant  many  years,  and  has  seen 
Gilbert  and  Katherine  Lawe,  but  was  not  acquainted  with 
them.  Depondent's  father  Thomas  Cockroft,  deceased,  had  a 
lease  for  ninety  years  of  a  moiety  of  the  Carr,  which  lease  came 
to  deponent,  as  son  and  heir,  who  about  fifteen  years  ago  con- 
veyed the  unexpired  term  to  complainant  for  £110. 

Andrew  Holden  of  Toadehole,  co.  Lancaster,  gent.,  aged 
sixty-three  years,  identifies  the  deed  of  Edward  Talbot  to 
Thomas  Cockroft,  of  20  Apr.  1634. 

Elizabeth  Rishton,  wife  of  John  Rishton  of  Whalley,  hus- 
bandman, aged  forty-eight  years,  deposes  that  said  Katherine 
Lawe  told  her  that  she  and  her  late  husband  held  only  a  life 
interest  at  Carr. 

Alice  Hatch  of  Brindle,  widow,  aged  forty-three  years,  "de- 
poseth and  saith  that  shee  knows  the  complainant  and  the  de- 
fendant and  did  knowe  George  Talbott  in  the  Interrogatory 
mentioned",  etc.;  also  she  saith  the  Lawes  requested  her  to  tell 
said  Braddyll  they  would  take  a  life  annuity  of  £8-8-0  for  their 
lease,  if  he  would  buy  the  Carr  of  said  Talbot. 

Depositions  for  defendant. 

William  Brierly  deposes  that  he  knows  the  complainant  and 
the  defendant  and  has  seen  but  did  not  know  George  Talbot; 
he  did  not  know  Gilbert  Lawe,  but  did  know  Katherine  Lawe. 

Jane  Hargreaves  deposes  that  she  knows  the  complainant  and 
hath  seen  Mr.  Talbot  and  did  know  Katherine  Lawe,  but  did 
not  know  Gilbert  Lawe  and  does  not  know  the  defendant. 


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Thomas  Braddyll  of  Portfield,  Esq.,  aged  forty  one  years, 
deposes  that  he  knows  complainant  and  defendant,  and  did 
know  Mr.  Talbot,  and  did  well  know  said  Gilbert  Lawe  who 
died  about  eleven  years  ago,  and  did  well  know  said  Katherine 
Lawe  who  died  about  1  Sept.  1671.  Deponent  is  a  bondsman 
on  several  bonds  of  £8-8-0  from  complainant  to  Katherine 
Lawe,  and  knows  of  no  agreement  in  respect  to  them  other  than 
is  contained  in  the  bonds  themselves.  (Depositions,  Palatinate 
of  Lancaster,  bundles  89  and  90.) 

It  is  noticeable  that  while  the  above  deponents  state  they 
"know"  the  complainant  and  defendant,  etc.,  when  they  refer 
to  George  Talbot  they  state  they  "did  know"  or  "had 
seen"  him;  this  indicates  that  their  acquaintance  with  him  was 
in  the  past,  and  that  he  had  not  been  for  some  time  a  resident  in 
the  vicinity  of  Carr  Hall,  at  the  date  of  the  depositions  (1672). 

Ten  years  now  pass  during  which  no  record  of  George^^ 
Talbot  has  been  discovered;  but  from  statements  in  the  suit  of 
Greenfield  vs.  Talbot  in  1684,  previously  given,  it  appears  that 
George^i  Talbot  lived  from  1674  to  1676  in  Preston,  co.  Lanca- 
shire, and  that  for  some  time  prior  to  1682  he  resided  in  Ireland. 
(See  antey  pp.  49, 47.)  But  in  the  last  named  year  he  returned  to 
England,  having  acquired  means,  probably  by  his  second  wife 
then  coming  into  property,  wherewith  to  redeem  his  ancestral 
estate  of  Carr  Hall  from  Edward  Braddyll  who  had  held  the 
estate  and  enjoyed  all  the  profits  therefrom  for  twenty-five 
years.  But  Braddyll  refusing  to  then  surrender  the  estate  on 
payment  of  the  mortgage,  George  Talbot  on  28  Nov.  1682 
entered  a  suit  in  equity  against  him  in  the  High  Court  of  Chan- 
cery, for  right  of  redemption  of  the  property  and  settlement  of 
accounts.  The  documents  in  this  case  furnish  valuable  and 
interesting  information  concerning  George^^  Talbot  and  the 
Carr  Hall  estate. 

George  Talbot  vs.  Edward  Braddyll. 
To  the  Lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  of  England.  Humbly 
complaining,  your  orator  George  Talbot  of  the  Carr  in  Wilp- 
shire,  co.  Lancaster,  gent.,  sheweth  that  he  served  his  present 
majesty  [Charles  IL]  and  his  late  father  [Charles  L]  in  the  civil 
wars,  and  was  at  Woogan  fight  in  Lancashire  and  at  Worcester 
fight  imder  Lord  Derby,  in  the  service  of  his  present  majesty. 
And  for  his  fidelity  your  orator's  estates  were  sequestered,  your 
orator  being  seized  in  fee  tail  of  certain  estate  and  also  of  other 
estate  whereof  the  reversion  was  to  your  orator,  viz.,  of  that 
capital  messuage  commonly  called  the  Carr,  in  Lancashire,  and 


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of  one  water  corn-mill,  two  cottages,  and  divers  farm  buildings, 
with  lands,  etc.,  belonging  to  said  Carr,  all  of  the  yearly  value 
of  £80.  The  said  estates  of  your  orator  were  seized  and  he  was 
turned  out  and  detained  from  the  rents  thereof;  and  by  force 
of  said  sequestration  one  Robert  Cunliffe  of  Sparke,  co.  Lan- 
caster, had  possession  of  said  estates  from  1652  to  1655,  when 
one  Towlnson  obtained  said  sequestration  and  secured  them. 
And  your  orator  being  acquainted  with  one  Edward  Braddyl 
of  Moreton  in  said  county,  gent.,  (to  whom  said  Towlnson  was 
uncle  or  near  relation),  your  orator  and  said  Braddyl  had 
numerous  conferences  concerning  buying  off  said  sequestration. 
And  at  length  said  Braddyl  proposed  that  if  your  orator  would 
settle  his  estates  on  said  Braddyl  as  security  for  £320  and 
interest,  the  said  Braddyl  would  pay  to  your  orator  £20  in 
money  and  free  your  orator's  estate  from  sequestration  by  pay- 
ment of  the  fines  thereon.  For  security  Braddyl  was  to  have 
possession  of  said  estates  and  receive  the  profits  therefrom  until 
he  was  satisfied  the  said  £320  and  interest.  So  on  25  Mar. 
1657,  your  orator  assigned  his  estates  to  said  Braddyl,  the 
dower  of  Mabel  Talbot  excepted,  for  £320,  whereof  £20  was 
paid  to  your  orator  and  the  £300  residue  was  paid  out  for  com- 
pounding the  sequestration  of  your  orator's  estates.  Said  as- 
signment was  for  a  term  of  ninety-nine  years,  for  a  rent  to  your 
orator  of  5  s.  per  annum,  and  at  expiration  of  said  term  said 
estates  to  revert  to  the  use  of  your  orator  and  his  heirs;  but  if 
your  orator  should  pay  to  said  Braddyl  £380  on  25  Mar.  1688, 
then  the  estate  should  revert  to  your  orator  and  his  heirs.  Be- 
fore the  indenture  was  signed,  your  orator  objected  to  some  of 
the  wording  as  not  being  in  the  nature  of  a  mortgage,  and  Brad- 
dyl agreed  to  later  execute  a  bond  declaring  the  conveyance  to 
be  merely  a  mortgage.  Thereupon  the  indenture  was  signed 
and  Braddyl  entered  upon  and  enjoyed  the  estates  to  the  amount 
of  £50  per  annum  until  the  death  of  widow  Mabel  Talbot, 
three  years  after  the  date  of  indenture,  when  said  Braddyl  took 
possession  of  the  dower  of  said  Mabel,  and  said  Braddyl  has 
since  enjoyed  the  whole  estate.  Said  Braddyl  did  sign  a  bond 
declaring  his  possession  was  only  a  mortgage;  but  in  rendering 
an  account,  he  asked  your  orator  to  produce  said  bond,  which 
your  orator  did,  not  doubting  Braddyl,  and  he  put  same  into  a 
fire  which  was  at  hand,  do  what  your  orator  could  to  prevent  it. 
Your  orator  hopes  said  Braddyl  will  on  his  oath  testify  to 
the  truth  of  this  story,  your  orator's  witnesses  that  could  prove 
the  same  being  either  dead  or  removed  beyond  the  seas  where 


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unknown  to  your  orator.  Your  orator  being  very  poor,  it  was 
Braddyl's  intent  to  swallow  up  your  orator's  estate.  Braddyl 
now  claims  absolute  possession  for  ninety-nine  years  and  all 
profits  for  thirty-one  years,  and  that  the  £380  to  be  paid  by 
your  orator  was  to  be  for  repairs  and  improvements  on  estate. 
Said  Braddyl  has  rendered  no  account  for  payment  for  seques- 
tration, neither  has  he  made  any  improvements  on  the  estate; 
but  he  has  racked  the  same,  and  cut  off  the  wood,  and  taken 
down  the  mill  and  other  buildings.  Your  orator  prays  for  a 
summons  to  said  Braddyl  to  appear  and  answer,  and  for  the 
equity  of  redemption  of  said  estates,  and  an  accounting  of  the 
profits.  28  Nov.  1682.  (Chancery  Proceedings,  1649-1714, 
Bridges,  bundle  566.) 

Answer  of  Edward  Braddyl,  gent.,  defendant,  15  Feb.  1682/3 
Defendant  does  not  know  whether  or  not  complainant  served 
the  King,  and  does  not  know  whether  or  not  he  was  sequestered. 
Defendant  does  know  that  complainant  was  seized  of  Carr 
estate,  partly  in  inheritance  and  partly  in  reversion,  all  of  which 
defendant  believes  was  of  the  yearly  value  of  about  £43.  Part 
of  said  estate  to  the  value  of  £15  was  in  possession  of  complain- 
ant; and  Mabel  Talbot,  mother  of  complainant,  held  another 
part  for  life  worth  £17  per  annum;  and  one  Katherine  Lawe 
held  another  part  for  thirty-one  years  (which  term  expired  about 
three  years  since)  of  the  yearly  value  of  £8;  and  one  Richard 
Hurst  held  a  lease  of  another  part  worth  £3  per  year,  which 
lease  expired  five  years  since.  Defendant  never  heard  that 
complainant's  estate  was  sequestered,  but  knew  that  his  mother 
Mabel  Talbot's  was,  because  of  recusancy,  which  cost  defendant 
£40  to  remove,  after  said  Mabel's  death.  Neither  does  de- 
fendant believe  that  Cunliffe  or  Townson  ever  enjoyed  any  of 
said  estate  by  virtue  of  sequestration,  although  complainant 
being  in  debt,  they  may  have  obtained  it  for  that  reason.  Said 
George  Townson  was  uncle  to  defendant  by  marriage  to  sister 
of  defendant's  father.  Defendant  denies  any  conversation  with 
complainant  concerning  buying  of  sequestration.  But  in  March 
1656/7  there  was  a  treaty  between  complainant  and  defendant 
concerning  defendant  purchasing  an  interest  in  plaintiff's 
estate,  part  of  which  was  encumbered.  Complainant  agreed 
for  £320  to  convey  his  estates  to  defendant  for  ninety-nine 
years;  but  if  complainant  should  pay  defendant  £380  at  end 
of  thirty-one  years,  then  said  term  of  ninety-nine  years  should 
cease.  By  indenture  dated  25  Mar.  1657,  complainant  and 
Anne  his  wife  agreed  to  acknowledge  a  fine  at  the  next  assizes 


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to  convey  the  premises  to  defendant  and  his  heirs,  to  the  intent 
that  defendant  might  be  perfect  tenant  of  the  freehold  of  said 
premises.  And  said  deed  was  made  and  defendant  paid  out  to 
the  creditors  of  complainant  the  sum  of  £320  by  his  direction, 
and  plaintiff  gave  a  receipt  therefor,  dated  4  May  1657.  De- 
fendant cannot  now  recall  how  each  part  of  said  £320  was  paid. 
Defendant  denies  that  complainant  objected  to  the  indenture, 
until  after  it  was  signed,  when  he  suggested  that  a  thirty-one 
year  term  was  too  long  and  desired  the  £380  might  be  paid  at 
the  end  of  twenty-eight  years.  Whereupon  defendant  gave  a 
note  to  said  complainant  that  he  would  accept  of  said  money 
at  end  of  twenty-eight  years,  which  note  complainant  did  three 
or  four  days  later  surrender  to  defendant,  on  payment  of  40  s. 
to  complainant  and  £5  to  his  wife.  Defendant  claims  the 
conveyance  was  a  sale  for  a  fixed  term  and  not  a  mortgage  with 
security.  The  mother  of  complainant  enjoyed  part  of  the 
estate  for  four  years,  and  defendant  paid  £8-8-0  yearly  to  said 
Katherine  Lawe  until  two  years  ago,  and  £3  yearly  to  Richard 
Hurst  until  five  years  ago.  Defendant  denies  he  was  to  pay  for 
compounding  any  sequestration,  or  that  he  ever  stated  he  held 
merely  a  mortgage  of  the  premises.  Defendant  denies  giving 
or  burning  any  bond,  or  of  giving  any  paper  other  than  afore- 
said, or  that  he  took  advantage  of  complainant's  poverty. 
Defendant  has  expended  £80  in  improvements,  besides  £30 
in  suits  at  law  to  defend  the  title.  Defendant  denies  cutting 
down  trees  or  pulling  down  buildings,  and  claims  that  complain- 
ant himself  let  some  of  the  buildings  go  down.  (Chancery 
Proceedings,  1649-1714,  Bridges,  bundle  566.) 

Depositions  for  Complainant,  taken  13  Sept.  1683. 

(Chancery  Depositions,  Reynardson,  bundle  1008.) 
Dorothy,  wife  of  Richard  Parker  of  Great  Harwood,  yeoman, 
aged  fifty-four  years,  deposes:  that  she  has  known  the  com- 
plainant and  defendant  for  over  forty  years,  being  sister  to 
complainant  and  daughter  to  Mrs.  Mabel  Talbot  who  died  in 
March  next  preceeding  his  present  Majesty's  happy  restoration, 
and  who  was  near  four  score  years  of  age  at  her  death.  She 
knew  Richard  Hayhurst  and  Edward  Hayhurst,  both  buried 
at  Great  Harwood,  Richard  being  father  of  Edward.  The  com- 
plainant George  Talbot  served  imder  the  Earl  of  Derby  at 
Wigan,  where  he  was  wounded,  and  also  at  Worcester.  For  his 
loyalty  to  the  King,  the  complainant  was  sequestered  [in  1652] 
by  means  of  one  Cunliffe  and  one  George  Hindle,  agents  for 


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sequestration,  and  thereupon  complainant  was  turned  out  of 
possession  of  Carr  and  said  estate  was  set  over  by  sequestra- 
tion to  one  Thomas  Loynsdale.  The  estate  continued  under 
sequestration  for  two  years,  when  same  was  taken  off  by  one 
George  Towlnson  who  paid  moneys  in  behalf  of  complainant 
for  clearing  the  estate,  but  deponent  knows  not  the  amount, 
nor  does  she  know  the  total  of  complainant's  loss.  By  reason 
thereof,  his  creditors  fell  upon  him  and  sued  him  for  debts, 
which  caused  him  to  make  bad  bargains,  and  particularly  this 
bad  agreement  with  defendant.  Deponent  values  the  premises 
of  George  Talbot  at  Carr,  which  Braddyl  took,  at  £20  per  an- 
num, and  she  has  good  knowledge  thereof  as  she  was  born  at 
Carr.  The  value  of  Mabel  Talbot's  portion  was  about  £23 
per  year.  Deponent  also  knows  that  part  of  the  estate  occu- 
pied by  Katherine  Lawe  (whose  maiden  name  was  Braddyl), 
and  it  was  worth  £12  per  annum,  and  said  Katherine  did  one 
time  let  same  for  £12  to  Edward  Slater  of  Whalley.  But  the 
defendant  quarrelled  with  her  and  so  disturbed  her  that  she 
was  forced  to  let  same  to  defendant  for  £8  per  annum.  The 
portion  of  the  estate  in  occupation  of  Richard  Hurst,  late  serv- 
ant to  complainant,  was  worth  £3  clear  and  contained  three 
acres. 

Leonard  Waring  of  Goosenargh  deposes,  that  at  the  request 
of  the  wife  of  complainant,  he  has  surveyed  the  estate  and  finds 
it  contains  103  acres,  3  roods,  and  32  perches;  whereof  the  lands 
of  George  Talbot  entered  by  defendant  contain  38  acres,  1  rood, 
and  2  perches;  those  occupied  by  Mabel  Talbot  contain  39 
acres  and  27  perches;  those  occupied  by  Katherine  Lawe  con- 
tain 23  acres,  2  roods,  and  1  perch;  and  Hurst  tenement  con- 
tains 3  acres  and  2  perches.  Deponent  estimates  the  land 
worth  10s.  6d.  per  acre  per  annum. 

Robert  Fielding  of  Pythorne,  aged  seventy-two  years,  de- 
poses that  he  knows  the  complainant  and  defendant,  and  that 
Mabel  Talbot,  mother  of  complainant,  was  a  very  ancient 
woman  at  her  death  in  March  1660.  The  complainant  was  in 
actual  arms  at  Worcester  fight,  and  was  later  sequestered,  and 
the  estate  was  farmed  out  to  Thomas  Loynsdale.  Katherine 
Lawe  died  about  twelve  years  ago. 

Depositions  for  Defendant,  taken  13  Sept.  1683. 

Edward  Hesketh  of  Thornleigh,  co.  Lancaster,  carpenter, 
deposes  that  the  buildings  on  Carr  estate  were  in  a  ruinous  con- 
dition when  Braddyl  entered  in  1657. 

Burton  Shuttleworth  of  Carr  Hall,  gent.,  aged  sixty-four 


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years,  deposes  that  for  seven  years  up  to  2  Feb.  1679/80,  he 
farmed  the  estate  for  defendant  at  £40  per  annum,  and  de- 
ponent had  a  very  hard  farm  of  the  premises. 

Thomas  Cockroft  of  Clitheroe,  aged  sixty  years,  deposes 
that  his  father  did  long  since  lend  to  the  father  of  the  com- 
plainant the  sum  of  £60,  and  as  security  had  a  long  lease  of  a 
moiety  of  the  Carr,  redeemable  on  repayment  with  interest. 
In  1657  the  defendant  Braddyll  cleared  said  encumbrance  by 
paying  to  William  Cockcroft,  brother  of  deponent,  the  sum  of 
£110.  Deponent  identifies  an  indenture  for  above  loan,  made 
20  Apr.  10  Charles  I.  [1634],  between  Edward  Talbot,  son  and 
heir  of  John  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  gent.,  and  Thomas  Cockcroft, 
father  of  deponent,  who  died  about  twenty  years  later. 

Second  Bill  of  Complaint,  dated  18  May  1685. 
George  Talbot  of  Carr,  co.  Lancaster,  gent.,  complains,  that 
in  Michaelmas  1682  your  orator  exhibited  his  bill  against 
Edward  Braddyl,  since  deceased,  setting  forth  your  orator  had 
served  his  Majesty  Charles  II.  at  Wigan  fight,  and  was  se- 
questered for  this  service,  etc.,  etc.  Depositions  were  taken, 
the  cause  was  heard  20  Feb.  1683/4,  and  judgement  was  de- 
livered that  the  instrument  of  assignment  to  Braddyl  should  be 
held  to  be  a  mortgage,  that  your  orator  should  be  admitted  to 
the  redemption  of  the  premises,  and  that  an  accounting  of  the 
profits  and  improvements  of  the  defendant  should  be  taken 
before  a  master.  Before  the  accounting  had  been  settled,  said 
Edward  Braddyl  died  [in  Aug.  1684],  leaving  Margaret  his  wife 
administratrix,  who  ought  to  complete  account.  Your  orator 
asks  for  a  summons  for  her  to  appear  and  complete  the  account- 
ing. (Chancery  Proceedings,  1649-1714,  Bridges,  bundle  95 
no.  16.) 

Depositions  for  Defendant,  taken  in  Oct.  1685. 
(Chancery  Depositions,  Collins,  bundle  194,  no.  2.) 

James  Sharpies  of  Billington,  servant  to  the  late  Mr.  Brad- 
dyl, deposes  that  when  Mr.  Braddyl  took  possession  of  Carr 
Hall  no  one  could  go  dryshod  in  the  house  or  barn  in  foul 
weather,  the  mill  had  fallen  down,  and  there  were  no  gates  nor 
stiles  on  the  premises.     Mr.  Braddyl  laid  out  £200  in  repairs. 

Edward  Titterington  of  Billington,  formerly  servant  of  Mr. 
Braddyl  for  eight  years,  deposes  that  the  house  was  in  extra- 
ordinary great  decay  when  Mr.  Braddyl  first  took  possession, 
in  so  much  that  cattle  ran  into  the  house  for  wormstall  in  the 
summer  time. 


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Alice  Hatch  deposes  that  Mr.  Braddyl  went  to  dwell  at 
Carr  Hall  twenty-eight  years  ago,  deponent  being  then  his 
servant  there  for  five  weeks.  The  buildings  were  in  extra- 
ordinary decay.  Twelve  years  ago  she  again  saw  the  place 
and  it  had  been  put  in  repair  at  expense  of  £200.  Deponent 
further  states  that  the  first  night  Mr.  Braddyl  went  to  inhabit 
at  Carr  Hall,  some  difference  happened  between  him  and  Mr. 
Talbot,  and  the  latter  slipped  into  the  house  and  barred  the 
door  and  kept  Mr.  Braddyl  out,  saying  Mr.  Braddyl  should 
have  no  possession  until  he  (Talbot)  and  his  wife  were  satisfied. 
Whereupon  they  went  to  Whalley  and  there  matters  were 
settled,  so  that  the  next  night  they  came  to  Carr  Hall  and  com- 
plainant owned  that  Braddyl  had  paid  £5  to  Mrs.  Talbot,  and 
therefore  was  free  and  welcome  to  possession  of  Carr  Hall. 

Anne,  wife  of  George  Taylor,  deposes  that  she  has  been 
servant  to  Mr.  Braddyl,  and  knows  that  Mrs.  Mabel  Talbot 
had  used  the  timbers  from  the  old  mill  for  firewood. 

Depositions  for  Complainant. 

John  Sudell,  yeoman,  deposes  that  when  Mr.  Braddyl  first 
occupied  the  house  there  were  two  props  in  the  house,  but  now 
there  are  thirty  props  in  the  house  and  barn  to  keep  them  from 
falling.  Deponent  believes  that  Mr.  Braddyl  has  spent  less 
than  £12  for  repairs,  and  the  house  is  in  much  more  decay  than 
when  he  entered. 

Richard  Edmundson,  yeoman,  aged  sixty-four  years,  de- 
poses that  Carr  estate  has  been  let  for  the  last  few  years  to 
Major  Shuttleworth  for  £40  per  annum.  Repairs  made  by 
Mr.  Braddyl  cost  less  than  £12.  Major  Shuttleworth  told 
deponent  that  he  was  in  fear  of  his  life  in  the  house,  and  that 
it  needed  a  dozen  more  props  to  make  it  safe. 

Thomas  Wilkinson  of  Clayton-in-the-Dale,  yeoman,  aged 
eighty-one  years,  deposes  that  Carr  estate  has  about  100 
acres,  and  is  now  worth  £40  per  year  clear.  The  buildings 
were  something  out  of  repair  when  Mr.  Braddyl  first  entered, 
but  are  now  much  more  worse  and  are  supported  by  over 
thirty  props.  Deponent  and  several  neighbors  estimate  that 
repairs  made  by  Braddyl  cost  under  £12.  The  mill  and  kiln 
were  so  much  out  of  repair  when  Mr.  Braddyl  first  entered,  that 
they  could  not  be  used  without  repairs;  so  he  took  them  down 
and  rebuilt  the  garden  wall  with  the  stones. 

Having  thus  recovered  his  ancestral  estate,  after  an  exile 
from  it  of  over  twenty-five  years,  George^^  Talbot,  at  the  age 
of  about  sixty  years,  returned  in  1685  to  Carr  Hall,  and  re- 


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sided  there  for  the  remaining  twenty-five  years  of  his  life.  Dur- 
ing this  period  he  was  engaged  in  at  least  two  lawsuits  of  which 
records  have  been  found.  The  first  one  of  them,  in  1697,  fur- 
nishes interesting  domestic  information  and  the  earliest  recorded 
mention  that  has  been  found  in  England  of  any  child  of  George^^ 
Talbot,  although  he  had  been  first  married  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury before. 

James  Parkinson  vs.  George  Talbot. 
On  15  Feb.  1696  [1696/7]  James  Parkinson  of  Stainderber, 
CO.  Lancaster,  gent.,  complains  that  George  Talbot  of  Carr, 
CO.  Lancaster,  gent.,  being  a  gentleman  of  good  real  and  per- 
sonal estate,  and  having*  andf  , 
namely,  t  ,  and  having  more  than  ordinary  af- 
fection for  his  said  daughter  Mary  (who  had  been  very  dutiful 
all  her  life  to  him  and  his  wife),  the  said  George  had  often  de- 
clared he  would  handsomely  prefer  her  in  marriage,  frequently 
stating  he  would  give  said  Mary  a  marriage  portion  of  £500 
or  £600.  And  complainant  having  heard  of  these  promises, 
proposed  marriage  with  said  Mary,  whereunto  said  George 
willingly  hearkened  and  consented,  and  was  informed  as  to 
complainant's  estate,  etc.  And  said  George  promised  that  upon 
said  marriage  he  would  put  complainant  in  possession  of  said 
estate  called  Carr,  of  which  said  George  claimed  to  be  seized, 
worth  £60  per  year,  and  that  complainant  should  have  the  prof- 
its thereof,  paying  said  George  £20  per  year  for  seven  years  after 
said  marriage;  and  your  complainant  was  also  to  have  all  the 
goods  of  said  George,  worth  £300,  on  condition  complainant 
should  pay  a  debt  of  said  George  to  John  Warren,  Esq.,  of  £100, 
which  said  George  claimed  to  be  his  only  debt.  Furthermore, 
said  George  also  promised  to  pay  complainant  £200  at  the  end 
of  seven  years  after  the  marriage.  And  said  George  wrote  and 
invited  complainant  and  his  relatives  to  come  to  Carr  to  have 
the  marriage  settlement  concluded  and  the  marriage  consmn- 
ated.  So  about  July  or  August  §  complainant  and  his 
relations  went  to  Carr  where  they  insisted  said  George  put  his 
promises  in  writing.  Whereupon  said  George,  although  ad- 
mitting above  promises,  then  pretended  his  wife  was  unwilling 
to  leave  his  estate  at  Carr  where  they  then  lived,  and  said  he 
would  pay  his  said  daughter's  marriage  portion  in  another 

*  Omitted  words  should  be,  "one  son". 

t  Omitted  words  should  be,  "two  daughters". 

X  Omitted  words  should  be,  "George,  Catherine,  and  Mary". 

§"1693"  omitted. 


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way.  Whereupon  said  George  executed  the  following  articles: 
Articles  of  agreement  of  marriage  to  be  solemnized  between 
James  Parkinson  of  Escow,co.  York,  and  Mary  Talbot,  daughter 
of  George  Talbot  of  Carr,  co.  Lancaster,  dated  5  Aug.  1693, 
witnesseth  that  the  said  George  Talbot  agrees  to  pay  the  said 
James  Parkinson  £100  at  the  end  of  three  years,  and  for  security 
assigns  meadows  called  Broad  Meadow  and  Long  Meadow, 
containing  eight  acres.  Said  James  and  Mary  shall  have  diet 
and  lodging  free  with  said  George  Talbot  until  next  May  day, 
and  longer  if  it  is  agreed.  Said  George  also  agrees  that  at  his 
death  his  said  daughter  Mary  shall  by  will  be  made  equal  or 
better  than  the  rest  of  his  children  over  and  above  said  £100. 
Said  James  Parkinson  shall  endow  said  Mary  in  half  of  a  tene- 
ment called  Escow  and  a  piece  of  land  called  Stainderber, 
situate  in  the  counties  of  York  and  Lancaster.  Signed  by 
George  Talbot.  Complainant  was  induced  to  accept  above 
written  articles  instead  of  the  former  verbal  promises.  There- 
upon about*  complainant  and  said  Mary  intermarried 
and  had  diet  and  lodging  free  with  said  George  Talbot  until 
next  May  day  1694,  when  complainant  took  his  wife  to  his 
own  estate  at  Escow,  where  they  have  since  resided.  About 
last  October,  complainant  and  his  wife  went  to  Carr,  and  com- 
plainant civilly  requested  said  George  to  pay  the  £100  as  agreed. 
But  said  George  now  repudiates  the  articles  of  agreement,  re- 
fuses to  make  payment,  and  claims  the  aforesaid  meadows  had 
been  previously  assigned  and  so  cannot  be  attached  by  complain- 
ant, and  so  in  plain  terms  bids  your  complainant  "goe  to  his 
purpose  and  take  his  course;  although  in  August  last,  said  £100 
should  have  been  paid."  Also  said  George  now  pretends  Carr 
estate  was  in  some  other  persons  upon  secret  trust,  and  he 
refuses  his  agreement  to  make  his  daughter  Mary  better  than 
his  other  children.  It  is  apparent  that  said  George  intended 
to  put  off  said  daughter  upon  complainant,  without  any  portion, 
contrary  to  equity  and  good  conscience,  as  the  complainant 
is  unable  to  enter  upon  the  previously  assigned  closes  to  collect 
the  agreed  dowry  of  £100. 

Complainant  prays  that  a  summons  be  directed  to  the  said 
George  Talbot  to  answer  whether  or  not  the  above  named 
promises  were  first  made  by  him,  whether  or  not  the  above 
articles  were  finally  accepted  by  complainant,  and  whether  or 
not  in  last  October  said  George  refused  to  pay  the  £100  or  to 
convey  said  meadows  to  complainant,  pretending  they  were 

*  Date  omitted. 


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entailed.  Complainant  prays  that  said  George  may  be  re- 
quired either  to  fulfill  his  original  promises  or  the  written  articles 
of  agreement.  (Palatinate  of  Lancaster,  Bills,  bundle  44,  no. 
113.) 

No  answer,  depositions,  or  decree  can  be  found  regarding  this 
suit,  and  it  is  evident  that  the  case  was  settled  by  George^i 
Talbot  paying  Parkinson  the  £100  agreed  upon,  as  in  his  will 
in  1708  he  mentions  the  fact  that  his  daughter  Mary  had  al- 
ready received  £100. 

This  will  of  George^i  Talbot  in  1708  (to  be  given  later)  be- 
queathed Carr  estate  to  a  son  George^^  Talbot,  *^if  he  happen  to 
be  alive  and  appear  at  Carr^*;  this  last  phrase  shows  that  the  son 
had  then  long  been  missing;  and  James  Parkinson's  claim  in 
above  suit  that  George^^  Talbot  had  originally  promised  to  con- 
vey Carr  Hall  to  Parkinson  as  a  marriage  portion  for  George's 
daughter  Mary^^  Talbot,  makes  it  certain  that  the  son  George^ 
Talbot  had  long  been  missing  as  early  as  1693;  as  certainly 
Parkinson  could  not  advance  such  a  tale,  if  George^^  Talbot's 
son  and  heir  was  then  known  to  be  living. 

While  James  Parkinson  and  his  wife  were  having  "free  diet 
and  lodging"  at  Carr  Hall  in  1694,  a  Catholic  rebellion  was 
attempted  in  Lancashire;  but  it  was  quickly  suppressed  by  the 
Government  and  commissioners  were  sent  out  to  ferret  out  the 
Catholics  who  had  instigated  the  plot,  and  to  summons  witnesses 
for  examination.  Among  these  witnesses,  James  Parkinson  of 
Carr  Hall,  co.  Lancaster,  gent.,  deposes,  that  one  Ellis,  servant 
to  Capt.  Baker  one  of  the  King's  commissioners,  seized  two  of 
deponent's  horses,  and  deponent  sent  his  wife  to  try  and  see  if 
she  could  prevail  on  Ellis  and  his  company  to  restore  the  horses; 
and  deponent's  wife  informed  him  that  John  Lunt,  who  was 
with  Ellis,  informed  her  he  had  matters  of  consequence  to  im- 
part to  deponent.  And  so  deponent  went  to  Lunt  who  asked 
his  assistance  in  giving  evidence  against  Lord  Molineux.  (See 
"Historical  Mss.  Commission  Reports,"  No.  14,  Appendix, 
part  4,  p.  368.) 

Among  the  manuscripts  of  Lord  Kenyon,  is  a  copy  of  eight 
charges  made  in  1690  against  Thomas  Braddyll  of  Portfield  by 
Rev.  Stephen  Gey,  vicar  of  Whalley,  alleging  that  Braddyll 
was  a  Catholic.  The  fifth  charge  was:  "Numbers  of  papists 
of  quality  were  freed  by  Braddyl  from  taxes  in  his  oflSce  as  com- 
missioner for  the  King's  subsidy  in  Whalley  District,  among 
them  R.  Grimshaw,  Esq.,  G.  Talbot,  gent.,  and  Judge  Cottrell; 
they  being  doubly  assessed,  according  to  the  Act,  as  professed 


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papists,  were  struck  off  by  said  Braddyl",  etc.  (See  "Historical 
Mss.  Commission  Reports"  No.  14,  Appendix,  part  4,  p.  251.) 
This  "G.  Talbot,  gent.",  doubtless  refers  to  George^i  Talbot 
of  Carr  Hall,  who  evidently  adhered  to  the  Catholic  faith  of  his 
ancestors. 

Two  more  mentions  of  George^^  Talbot  before  1700  have  been 
found.  The  inventory  of  the  estate  of  George  West  of  Wilp- 
shire  was  taken  22  Apr.  1696,  by  George  Talbott,  Richard  Dob- 
son,  Oliver  Feilding,  and  Roger  Noblet.  (Chester  Probate 
Records.)  On  17  June  1698,  George  Talbot  of  Carr  in  Wilp- 
shire  and  George  Blore  of  Billington,  claiming  to  be  adminis- 
trators of  the  estate  of  John  Houlden  of  Witton,  sued  Richard 
Worthington,  Thomas  Brockhole,  and  James  Houlden,  who  had 
seized  the  estate  of  the  deceased.  (Palatinate  of  Lancaster, 
Bills,  bundle  46,  no.  35.)  The  deceased  John  Holden  was  a 
nephew  of  Anne  Holden,  the  second  wife  of  George^^  Talbot, 
great-grandfather  of  George^^  Talbot;  but  the  documents  in 
this  suit  furnish  no  information  about  the  Talbot  family. 

The  long  and  checkered  life  of  George^^  Talbot  was  now 
drawing  to  a  close.  He  had  lived  in  the  reigns  of  nine  sover- 
eigns and  had  witnessed  three  revolutions  in  the  English  govern- 
ment. By  a  first  marriage  he  had  had  two  sons  and  two 
daughters;  and  when  his  sons  were  but  children,  he  had  lost 
his  inherited  homestead,  apparently  hopelessly;  so  the  eldest 
son,  with  no  prospect  of  inheritance,  had  become  a  Catholic 
priest  and  soon  after  died  in  a  foreign  land.  The  other  son, 
when  a  young  man,  had  mysteriously  disappeared,  and  for 
many  years  had  not  been  heard  from,  so  his  father  did  not  know 
whether  he  were  living  or  dead.  Probably  with  the  money  of 
his  second  wife,  he  had  been  able  to  redeem  his  ancestral  estate 
in  1685,  after  over  twenty-five  years  exile  from  it,  and  had  since 
lived  there  with  her  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  His  two 
daughters,  both  married  and  with  children  and  grand-children, 
were  living  in  the  vicinity,  and  apparently  not  on  friendly 
terms  with  their  step-mother.  These  were  the  circumstances 
under  which  George^^  Talbot,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years, 
and  realizing  his  approaching  end,  arranged  for  the  disposal  of 
his  estate. 

Will  of  George  Talbot  of  Carr. 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen,  the  eighteenth  day  of  December 
in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
eight,  I  George  Talbott  of  Carr  in  the  County  of  Lancaster, 
Gent.,  being  indisposed  in  body  but  of  sound  and  perfect  mem- 


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ory,  praised  be  God  for  the  same,  Doe  make  &  ordain  this  my 
last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner  &  forme  following.  First 
and  principally  I  doe  commend  my  Soule  unto  the  hands  of 
Amighty  God  my  Maker  and  Redeemer  and  my  body  to  the 
earth  to  be  buryed  at  the  discretion  of  my  Executrix  hereafter 
named,  Trusting  assuredly  through  the  mercyes  of  my  God  that 
I  shall  receive  full  pardon  and  free  remission  of  all  my  sinns  and 
be  saved  by  the  pretious  death  and  meritts  of  my  Blessed 
Saviour  and  Redeemer  Christ  Jesus.  And  as  concerning  my 
worldly  estate  wherewith  it  hath  pleased  God  toblesse  me,  I 
dispose  of  the  same  as  foUoweth.  Imprimis:  I  give  and  be- 
queath unto  my  dearly  beloved  Wife  Ann  Talbott  one  full  half 
part  of  all  my  Mess^  &  Tenem*  with  the  appert'  called  the  Carr 
situated  &  being  in  Wilpshire  and  Billington  in  the  said  County, 
to  have  &  to  hold  the  said  half  part  for  and  during  her  natural 
life,  the  whole  to  be  divided  by  two  such  neighbours  as  she  shall 
nominate  and  my  said  Wife  to  have  her  choice  of  whitch  part 
she  shall  be  mindful  to  take.  Item :  I  give  and  bequeath  all  the 
other  half  part  of  the  said  Messg^  &  Tenn**  to  my  Sonn  George 
Talbott  if  hee  happen  to  be  alive  and  to  appear  at  Carr  aforesaid 
in  right  sense  and  good  understanding,  to  have  and  to  hold  the 
same  from  the  time  of  such  appearance  untill  the  death  of  my 
said  Wife,  and  after  her  decease  and  the  like  appearance  of  my 
said  Son  George,  I  give  &  bequeath  all  the  whole  before  men- 
tioned Messu^^  &  Tenem*^  with  the  appurtenc'  to  my  said  son 
George  his  Exc**,  Adm^  &  Ass^  during  all  the  remainder  of  my 
term  therein.  And  it  is  my  Will  &  minde  that  my  said  Wife 
shall  have  &  enjoy  all  the  whole  said  Mess'gs  &  Tenem*^  with 
the  appurt^  until  such  appearance  of  my  said  son  George.  And 
if  he  happen  to  be  dead  or  shall  not  appear  at  Carr  aforesaid 
in  such  right  sense  and  understanding,  then  I  give  &  bequeath 
all  the  said  Mess^^  &  Tenem*^  with  the  appur*^  with  all  my 
right,  title,  terme,  &  interest  therein  unto  my  said  Wife  Ann 
Talbott,  her  Exuc,  Adm,  &  Ass,  and  the  same  to  be  disposed  of 
as  she  shall  think  fitting.  Item :  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my 
daughter  Cathrin  Eden  the  sum  of  One  hundred  pounds  in  full 
satisfaction  of  her  portion  and  in  full  of  all  her  title  &  claim  of 
any  money  due  to  her  by  virtue  of  any  act  or  deed  by  me  for- 
merly made  or  executed.  And  it  is  my  Will  and  minde  that 
shee  shall  give  a  generall  release  of  all  Title  to  the  Carr  afore- 
said before  shee  shall  receive  the  said  money  or  any  part  there- 
of; and  upon  the  refusall,  to  forfeit  the  same  to  my  Executrix 
hereafter  named.     Item:  I  give  unto  my  said  daughter  Cath- 


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rine  Eden's  two  children  called  Robert  and  Mary  each  of  them 
Twenty  pounds,  to  be  paid  them  at  the  decease  of  my  said  Wife 
and  upon  condition  of  their  release  as  aforesaid.  Item:  I  give 
unto  my  daughter  Mary  Osbaldeston  Twenty  pounds  to  be 
paid  her  also  at  the  decease  of  my  said  Wife,  upon  condition  that 
her  husband  and  shee  doe  likewise  give  a  generall  release  shortly 
for  the  One  hundred  pounds  she  has  already  received,  according 
as  above  required  for  my  said  daughter  Cathrine.  Item:  I 
give  to  my  said  daughter  Mary's  children,  called  James,  Mary, 
Dorothy,  Margery,  and  Ann,  each  of  them  Twenty  pounds,  to 
be  paid  them  at  the  death  of  my  said  Wife,  upon  condition  of 
my  said  daughter  Mary  and  her  said  husband  release  as  afore- 
said. And  it  is  my  Will  &  mind  that  my  said  Wife  shall  have  the 
interest  of  all  the  money  hereby  given  to  all  or  any  of  my  grand- 
children &  daughter  Mary  during  the  life  of  my  said  Wife. 
Item:  I  give  to  my  cozen  John  Parker  Tenn  shillings,  to  my 
cozen  Alexander  Parker  Tenn  shillings,  to  my  nephews  John 
&  Thomas  Talbott  each  Ten  shillings.  Item:  after  all  my 
debts,  legacy's,  &  funeral  expenses  are  paid  &  discharged,  I 
give  and  bequeath  all  the  rest,  residue,  and  remainder  of  all  my 
money  and  all  my  goods,  chattells,  &  personall  estate  whatsoever 
unto  my  said  dear  Wife  Ann  Talbott,  And  I  doe  hereby  nominate 
&  appoint  my  said  dear  Wife  Ann  Talbott  Sole  Executrix  of 
this  my  last  Will  &  Testament,  hoping  she  will  see  the  same 
faithfully  performed  as  my  trust  is  in  her.  In  Witness  whereof 
I  have  hereunto  put  my  hand  &  seal  and  published  the  same  as 
my  last  Will  the  day  &  year  first  above  written. 

George  Talbott 

Sealed,  signed,  published,  &  declared  by  the  said  George 
Talbott  for  &  as  his  last  Will  &  Testament  before  us  who  attested 
the  same  in  his  presence  and  at  his  request.  Theoph  Taylor, 
Mathew  Gregson,  Jno.  Sherburne. 

Whereas  I  the  within  named  George  Talbott  by  my  within 
written  last  Will  and  Testament  dated  the  18*^  day  of  December 
Anno  Domi  1708,  have  nominated  &  appointed  my  within  said 
dear  Wife  Ann  Talbott  sole  Executrix  thereof.  It  is  my  further 
Will  and  mind  that  if  my  said  Son  George,  my  said  daughter 
Cathrine  Eden,  my  said  daughter  Mary  Osbaldeston,  or  any  of 
them,  or  any  of  my  said  grandchildren  shall  at  any  time  there- 
after put  my  said  Wife  to  any  charge  by  reason  of  their  or  any 
of  their  suites,  troubles,  or  refractory  proceedings  occasioned  by 
their  or  any  of  their  noncomplyance  with  my  said  last  Will  & 
Testament  &  the  true  intent  &  meaning  thereof  That  then  &  in 


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such  case  it  is  my  Will  &  Minde  that  my  said  Wife  her  Exuc*, 
Adm,  or  Ass^  shall  deduct  &  reimburse  all  such  charges  as  afore- 
said out  of  such  respective  child  or  grandchild's  portion  or 
legacy  by  me  therein  given  as  shall  be  vexatious  and  not  com- 
plying with  the  just  performance  of  my  said  last  Will  & 
Testament  making  this  writing  part  thereof  and  ratifying  & 
confirming  the  same  As  Witness  my  hand  &  Scale  the  18  day  of 
February  Anno  Domi  1708.     [1708/9]. 

George  Talbott 

Sealed,  signed,  published,  and  declared  by  the  said  George 
Talbott  as  a  Codicill  to  the  within  written  Will  in  the  presence 
of  us,  Theoph  Taylor,  Jno.  Sherburne. 

Proved  in  the  Consistory  of  Chester  24  June  1709. 

George^^  Talbot  died  less  than  six  weeks  after  making  the 
codicil  to  his  will,  as  shown  by  the  entry  of  his  burial  in  the 
registers  of  Whalley  church:  "1709.  March  y  30*^.  Buried 
Mr.  George  Taulbert  of  Carr  hall,  gentleman,  in  y«  church". 

Carr  Hall  had  been  the  subject  of  extensive  litigation  through- 
out the  life  of  George^^  Talbot,  and  his  will  caused  more  work  for 
lawyers.  By  this  will,  the  long  missing  son  George'^^  Talbot 
was  to  eventually  succeed  to  Carr  Hall  "if  he  happen  to  be  alive 
and  appear  at  Carr;  but  if  he  happen  to  be  dead  or  never  appear 
at  Carr",  then  the  said  estate  was  to  pass  outright  to  the  testa- 
tor's second  wife  Anne,  "to  dispose  of  as  she  shall  think  fitting". 
Thus,  if  the  son  George  were  dead  or  never  returned  home,  not 
only  were  said  son's  descendants  (if  any)  cut  off  from  the  suc- 
cession, but  the  will  also  explicitly  excluded  the  testator's  two 
daughters,  Catherine  and  Mary,  from  succeeding,  in  favor  of  the 
testator's  second  wife.  Considering  the  known  history  of 
George^i  Talbot,  and  reading  between  the  lines  of  his  will,  it 
seems  evident  that  George^^  Talbot  thus  favored  his  second  wife 
because  her  money  enabled  him  to  redeem  his  ancestral  property; 
and  it  is  also  evident  that  his  children  were  in  a  state  of  war 
with  their  step-mother.  Doubtless  the  daughters  felt,  that  if 
their  brother  were  dead  without  heirs,  that  they  should  have 
the  reversion  of  the  estate,  which  had  been  in  the  family  three 
centuries,  after  the  decease  of  their  step-mother.  As  soon  as  the 
eldest  daughter  Catherine  Eden  learned  of  the  provisions  of  her 
father's  will,  she  expressed  her  wrath  in  violent  manner,  as 
shown  by  the  following  document  fastened  to  the  original  will 
which  itself  is  in  fragments  and  pasted  on  a  paper  backing. 

Catherine  Eden  vs  Anne  Talbott. 
22  Sept.  1709.    Anne  Talbott  deposes:  George  Talbot  de- 


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parted  this  life  on  or  about  29  March  last.  About  April  5 
following,  Catherine  Eden,  daughter  of  said  George  Talbot, 
plaintiff  in  this  case,  came  to  the  defendant's  house  and  de- 
sired that  she  might  see  or  hear  read  her  father's  will,  which  the 
defendant  agreeing,  ordered  one  William  Clayton  to  bring  the 
will  and  read  it  to  her,  and  while  he  was  so  doing  she  the  said 
Catherine  Eden  hastily  snatched  the  said  original  will  out  of 
the  hands  of  the  said  William  Clayton,  and  before  it  could  be 
recovered  from  her  she  the  said  plaintiff  tore  the  said  will  in 
abundance  of  pieces;  some  [fell]  on  defendant's  house  floor,  some 
on  her  way  home,  and  others  were  not  to  be  found.  Which 
said  fact  and  violent  action  of  hers,  the  said  plaintiff  hath  since 
confessed  before  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  at  Preston,  and  at  the 
next  quarter  sessions  after,  and  before  several  credible  witnesses. 

The  will  was  admitted  to  probate  24  June  1709;  but  the 
daughter  Catherine  Eden  engaged  one  Richard  Bouchier,  an 
attorney  in  the  ecclesiastical  courts,  to  contest  the  will  in  the 
Court  of  the  Bishop  of  Chester,  her  step-mother  Anne  Talbot 
having  John  Hulton  as  attorney  to  defend  the  will.  As  will  be 
later  shown,  Catherine  Eden  evidently  attempted  at  this  time 
to  get  in  touch  with  her  missing  brother  George^^  Talbot  in  New 
England,  she  apparently  believing  him  to  be  there.  The  trial 
began  at  Chester  on  22  Sept.  1709;  unfortunately  no  documents 
in  the  case  are  preserved,  except  the  deposition  by  Anne  Talbot, 
previously  given;  the  clerk's  minutes  in  the  Court  Book  simply 
list  the  case  as  successively  postponed  on  6  October,  3  Novem- 
ber, 10  November,  17  November,  and  24  November,  to  1  Dec. 
1709,  when  decree  was  made  for  the  will.  (Court  Book,  Regis- 
try of  the  Bishop  of  Chester.) 

The  following  inventory  of  the  personal  estate  of  George^^ 
Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  is  filed  with  his  will  at  Chester: 

In  the  barn:  one  bull,  two  oxen,  four  horses,  one 
cow,  six  calves,  two  foals,  one  pig £25-15-0 

Carts  and  hay  in  the  barn 1-17-0 

In  the  hall :  two  long  tables,  one  form,  five  chairs, 
two  stools,  one  clock,  fire-irons,  etc., 1-  8-0 

In  the  dining  hall:  one  table,  five  chairs,  fire- 
irons,  etc 12-8 

In  the  great  chamber:  two  chests,  two  bedsteads, 
bedding,  fire-irons,  etc 1-  1-0 

In  the  middle  chamber:  one  bed,  two  chests, 
table,  trunk,  five  chairs,  fire-irons,  etc 2-15-0 


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In  the  little  stairhead  chamber:  one  bed,  bedding, 

chairs,  etc 0-15-0 

In  the  other  chamber:  two  beds,  chairs,  table, 

form,  stool,  fire-irons,  etc 3-  0-0 

In  the  kitchen:  cooking  utensils,  etc 1-17-0 

In  the  buttery:  utensils 4-16-0 

Linen 1-15-0 

Purse  and  apparell 320-  0-0 

Total £365-11-8 

The  will  of  George^^  Talbot  being  finally  allowed,  and  his 
son  George^^  Talbot  being  dead,  the  widow  Anne  Talbot  became 
sole  possessor  of  the  Carr  Hall  estate  which  she  at  once  sold  to 
the  trustees  of  the  great  landed  estate  of  Bartholomew  Walmes- 
ley,  Esq.,  of  Dunkenhalgh,  co.  Lancaster.  His  daughter  and 
sole  heiress,  Catherine  Walmesley,  born  in  1698,  married 
Robert  Petre,  seventh  Baron  Petre  of  Writtle,  co.  Essex,  and 
carried  all  the  great  Walmesley  estates,  including  Carr  Hall,  into 
the  Petre  family.  Their  son  Robert  James,  eighth  Baron 
Petre,  was  succeeded  by  his  only  son  Robert  Edward,  ninth 
Baron  Petre.  The  latter  had  two  sons:  1.  Robert  Edward 
Petre,  born  in  1763,  tenth  Baron  Petre,  ancestor  of  the  present 
Baron  Petre;  2.  George  William  Petre  of  Dunkenhalgh,  Esq., 
born  1766,  who  succeeded  to  all  the  Lancashire  estates,  and 
whose  descendant,  George  Ernest  Augustus  Henry  Petre  of 
Dunkenhalgh,  co.  Lancaster,  is  the  present  owner  of  Carr  Hall. 

Although  Anne  Talbot,  widow  of  George^^  Talbot,  sold  the 
Carr  Hall  estate  in  1709,  nevertheless  she  continued  to  reside 
there  until  her  death  in  1716;  and  it  was  later  occupied  by  Mary 
(Talbot)  Parkinson-Osbaldeston,  daughter  of  George^^  Talbot, 
and  her  children  and  grandchildren,  as  tenants  of  the  Petre 
family,  probably  by  some  lease  for  term  of  three  lives. 

In  the  "Blackburn  Times"  of  Saturday,  27  May  1893,  Wil- 
liam A.  Abram  Esq.,  the  eminent  historian  of  Blackburn,  printed 
a  three  column  article  on  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall.  A  short 
notice  of  Mr.  Abram  and  a  complete  copy  of  this  article  are 
given  as  Appendix  IV.  of  this  volume.  After  tracing  the 
history  of  the  family  from  Stephen  Talbot  down  through 
George^^  Talbot,  Mr.  Abram  starts  the  conclusion  of  his  article 
with  this  statement:  "An  old  document  which  I  have  seen 
supplies  some  information  as  to  the  children  and  descendants 
of  George  Talbot,  the  last  of  the  family  who  owned  Carr  free- 


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hold.  The  eldest  son,  Edward  Talbot,  became  a  monk  in  one 
of  the  orders  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  went  to  Italy  where 
he  is  said  to  have  died.  The  other  son,  George  Talbot,  emigrated 
to  New  England,  and  settled  in  America'*.  Mr.  Abram  also 
quotes  the  old  document  as  to  the  descendants  of  Catherine 
and  Mary,  daughters  of  George^^  Talbot.  The  whole  informa- 
tion given  in  this  "old  document"  seen  by  Mr.  Abram  may  be 
tabulated  as  follows: 


George  Talbot  =  Anne,  dau.  of 
of  Can  Hall        Ryley  of  Church 


I 
Edward 
Talbot 
a  monk 
d.  in  Italy 


I 
George 
Talbot 
emigrated  to 
New  England 


I 
Catherine  = 
Talbot 


i 

Robert  Eden 


—  Eden 
son  of  John 
Eden  of  West 
Auckland 


Mary  Eden 


James  Parkinson 
of  Standerbar 


1st  ' 

r^      Mary  Talbot 

d.  1763,  ae.  105 


2d 

I 


Robert  Osbaldeston 


James 
Parkin- 
son, d. 
ae.  20 


I     1714  •  • 

Mary  =  Thomas  Dorothy  Margery 


Parkin- 
son 


Darwen  Parkin- 
son, d.  y. 


Parkinson 


Anne 
Osbal- 
deston 

m. 
Robert 
Bennett 


I 

George 
Osbal- 
deston 
d.ae.l9 


Henry 
Darwen  of 
Carr  Hall; 
later  of 
Langley 
CO.  Essex 


I 
John 

Darwen  of 
Ribchester 
d.  1792 


Margaret 
Darwen 

m. 
Lawrence 
Peele 


Chas.  ^  Julian 
Baron       Darwen 
m.  (2) 
Dr.W- 
Ritchie 
of  Aber- 
deen. 
Charles  Baron 


I 

Dorothy 
Darwen 
m.  1762 
Daniel 
Robinson 
of  Man- 
chester 


Unfortimately  Mr.  Abram  did  not  state  where  the  above 
"old  document"  was  preserved;  but  he  was  a  journalist,  anti- 
quarian, and  genealogist  of  the  highest  standing,  and  his  ex- 
plicit statement  that  he  had  "seen"  it,  is  sufficient  guarantee 
that  it  was  a  genuine  old  record.  As  the  latest  date  in  it  is 
1792,  it  was  probably  made  the  next  year.    The  most  probable 


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reason  for  drawing  up  this  "old  document"  was  to  show  the 
descendants  of  the  last  George^^  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  in  regard 
to  termination  of  their  leases  of  the  place.  The  document 
appears  to  have  been  drawn  up  from  verbal  statements,  and 
not  from  a  search  among  records.  Now  Mary  Talbot,  daughter 
of  George  ^^  Talbot,  born  in  1658,  lived  to  the  great  age  of  105 
years,  dying  in  1763.  Doubtless  her  Darwen  grand-children, 
who  resided  at  Carr  Hall  and  were  thirty-five  to  forty-five  years 
old  at  her  death,  had  learned  the  family  history  from  the  vener- 
able dame,  and  it  was  probably  imparted  by  some  one  of  them  in 
1793  to  the  author  of  the  "old  document".  The  information 
given  in  this  extraordinary  record  has  been  proved  by  other 
sources  to  be  remarkably  correct  in  almost  every  detail  and  no 
errors  have  been  discovered;  it  is  therefore  reasonable  to  con- 
clude that  the  whole  of  it  is  correct,  including  the  statements 
about  Edward  and  George,  the  two  sons  of  the  last  George^^ 
Talbot  of  Carr  Hall. 

George^i  Talbot  married  first,  in  1650,  Anne  Ryley,  baptized 
at  Church  Kirk,  co.  Lancaster,  31  July  1634,  daughter  of 
James  Ryley.  (See  suit  of  Greenfield  vs.  Talbot,  ante,  p.  48.) 
This  conSarms  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document".  She  had  four 
children  and  died  in  August  1660,  her  burial  being  recorded  in 
the  registers  of  Whalley  Church,  as  follows:  "Mrs.  Anne  Talbott 
of  Carre  in  Billington  was  buryed  the  xx*^  day  of  August  1660". 

George^^  Talbot  married  secondly,  before  1670,  Anne , 

whose  parentage  has  not  been  learned;  she  survived  her 
husband,  and  the  registers  of  Whalley  record  her  sepulture: 
"1715/16.  March  ye  13.  Ye  same  day.  Buried  Mrs.  Ann 
Taubert  of  Carr  Hall  in  Billington,  in  ye  Church".  She  is 
not  mentioned  in  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document",  probably  be- 
cause she  had  no  children. 

Abstract  of  the  will  of  Anne  Talbot  of  Carr  within  Whilpshire, 
CO.  Lancaster,  widow,  dated  14  Mar.  1714/15.  To  my  great- 
granddaughter  Jane  Eden  £20  according  to  a  conditional  agree- 
ment made  between  my  son-in-law  John  Blore  and  me  28  Nov. 
1711;  and  if  not  paid,  I  give  said  sum  to  my  executors  to  divide 
among  my  grandchildren  by  my  daughter  Mary  Osbaldeston. 
To  my  grandchildren  Anne  and  George  Osbaldeston,  £5  each. 
To  Mr.  Gerrard  £2.  To  John  Parker  of  Eccleston  10  s.  To 
Robert  Ryley  5  s.  Residue  to  two  grandchildren  Mary  and 
Margery  Parkinson.  Richard  Walmesley  of  Preston  and  Wil- 
liam Bastian  of  Jockhouse,  executors.  Proved  4  June  1716. 
Inventory  of  goods  £167-1-8.     (Consistory  of  Chester.) 


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Children  of  George^i  and  Anne  (Ryley)  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall: 
i.  Edward22,  b.  about  1652;  according  to  Mr.  Abram's  "old 
document"  he  became  a  Catholic  monk  and  d.  in  Italy.  This 
is  the  sole  record  that  has  been  found  of  the  existence  of  this 
son.  But  no  reason  has  been  found  for  doubting  the  state- 
ment; it  seems  likely  that  George^i  Talbot  would  have  named 
a  son  for  his  father  Edward^"  Talbot;  and  as  the  family  were 
Catholics  and  several  members  in  earHer  generations  had 
been  priests,  it  would  have  been  a  natural  vocation  for  a 
young  heir  apparent  to  assume  whose  father's  ancestral  estate 
was  probably  deemed  to  be  hopelessly  lost. 

22.  ii.  George,  b.  about  1654;  by  his  father's  will  in  1708  was  given 
Carr  estate  **if  he  happen  to  be  alive  and  appear  there"; 
according  to  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document"  he  "emigrated  to 
New  England", 
iii.  Catherine,  b.  about  1656;  according  to  Mr.  Abram's  "old 
document"  she  "married  a  son  of  John  Eden  of  West  Auck- 
land, and  had  a  son  Robert  and  a  daughter  Mary";  these 
statements  are  confirmed  by  the  will  of  George^i  Talbot 
which  names  his  daughter  Catherine  Eden  and  her  children 
Robert  and  Mary  Eden.  She  m.  (1),  about  1678,  Robert 
Eden,  who  d.  in  London  in  1703,  administration  on  his  estate 
being  given  that  year.  (Chester  Probate  Records.)  She 
m.  (2),  about  1711,  John  Blore  of  BilHngton,  who  is  men- 
tioned as  "son-in-law"  in  the  will  of  widow  Anne  Talbot  in 
1715.  This  second  marriage  of  Catherine  Talbot  is  not  men- 
tioned in  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document",  probably  because  it 
was  of  no  interest  to  its  compiler,  as  John  Blore  had  no  chil- 
dren. On  3  Mar.  1725  /6,  administration  on  the  estate  of  John 
Blore  of  Billington,  was  given  to  his  widow  Catherine  Blore. 
(Chester  Probate  Records.)  She  had  a  contest  over  the  estate 
with  her  husband's  nephew  George  Blore;  among  the  witnesses 
were  her  granddaughter  Jane  (Eden)  Waring,  ae.  21,  wife  of 
Richard  Waring,  and  her  niece  Margery  (Parkinson)  Hodg- 
kinson,  ae.  26,  wife  of  WiUiam  Hodgkinson;  witnesses  stated 
that  the  widow  Catherine  Blore  had  been  blind  for  several 
years. 

Children  of  Robert  and  Catherine  (Talbot)  Eden: 

1.  Robert,  b.  about  1680;  was  Kving  in  London  in  1720. 
Children:  1.  Jane^  b.  about  1705,  m.  in  1726,  Richard 
Waring.    2.  Barbara, 

2.  Mary. 

iv.  Mary,  b.  about  1659;  m.  (1),  in  Aug.  1693,  James  Parkinson 
of  Standerbar.  (See  suit  of  Parkinson  vs.  Talbot,  ante,  p.  Q5.) 
She  m.  (2),  at  Blackburn  Church,  3  Aug.  1705,  Robert  Os- 
BALDESTON.    These  marriages  are  mentioned  in  Mr.  Abram's 


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"old  document",  and  are  further  confirmed  by  the  wills  of 
George^i  Talbot  in  1708  and  of  his  widow  Anne  Talbot  in  1715. 
(See  ante,  pp.  70,  75.)  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document"  asserts 
that  she  d.  in  1763,  aged  105  years.  This  remarkable  state- 
ment is  proved  to  be  correct  by  two  evidences.  The  registers 
of  Whalley  record  the  burial  of  "Mrs.  Mary  Osbaldeston  of 
Dinkley,  widow,  July  4*^*  1763";  and  her  death  is  noticed  in 
the  "London  Magazine"  for  August  1763,  as  follows:  "Late 
Deaths:  Mrs.  Osbaldeston  of  Whalley  in  Lancashire,  aged 
105  years". 

Children  by  first  marriage  (Parkinson)  :      < 

1.  James,  b.  in  1694;  is  named  in  the  will  of  his  grand- 
father George^i  Talbot  dated  18  Dec.  1708,  but  not  in 
the  will  of  widow  Anne  Talbot  dated  14  Mar.  1714/15, 
so  he  probably  d.  between  these  dates.  The  state- 
ment in  Mr.  Abram*s  "old  document"  that  he  "died 
aged  20  years",  so  about  1714,  is  thus  confirmed. 

2.  Mary,  b.  about  1696;  m.  in  1715  Thomas  Darwen; 
named  in  the  wills  of  her  grandparents,  and  in  Mr. 
Abram's  "old  document"  which  also  assigns  her  the 
following  five  children  (Darwen):  1.  Henry,  of  Carr 
Hall,  and  later  of  Langley,  co.  Essex.  2.  John  of  Rib- 
chester,  d.  1792*.  3.  Margaret,  m.  Lawrence  Peelef. 
4.  Juliana,  m.  (1),  Charles  Baron,  and  m.  (2),  Dr. 
WiUiam  Ritchie  of  Aberdeen.  5.  Dorothy,  m.  1762, 
Daniel  Robinson  of  Manchester.  This  marriage  is 
thus  recorded  on  the  registers  of  Manchester  Cathedral: 
"Daniel  Robinson  of  Manchester,  book-keeper,  and 
Dorothy  Darwent  of  Oswaldtwistle  were  married 
Oct.  20,  1762",  thus  confirming  Mr.  Abram's  "old  doc- 
ument". 

3.  Dorothy,  b.  about  1698;  named  in  will  of  her  grand- 
father George  Talbot  in  1708,  but  not  in  that  of  widow 
Anne  Talbot  in  1715;  this  confirms  the  statement  of 
Mr.  Abram's  "old  document"  that  she  d.  young. 

*  The  registers  of  Ribchester  confirm  this  death  record,  showing  the 
burial  of  John  Darwen  on  31  Dec.  1792.  His  will  dated  26  Nov.  1792, 
mentions  wife  Ann,  brother  Henry  Darwen,  sister  Julian  Richey,  and 
children  of  sister  Dorothy,  wife  of  Daniel  Robinson.  Executors,  Wil- 
liam Pye  and  George  Pye.  Proved  10  May  1793.  (Archdeaconry 
of  Richmond.)     This  will  confirms  Mr.  Abram's  "old  document". 

t  The  Peele  Genealogy  states  that  Lawrence  Peele,  second  son  of 
William  Peele  of  Oswaldtwistle  in  Church  Kirk,  married  Margaret 
Darwen  of  Carr  Hall  near  Whalley.  Robert  Peele,  eldest  brother  of 
Lawrence,  was  father  of  Sir  Robert  Peele,  Bart.,  the  great  cotton  manu- 
facturer, and  grandfather  of  the  eminent  statesman  Sir  Robert  Peele. 


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4.  Margery,  b.  about  1700;  is  named  in  the  "old  docu- 
ment" and  in  the  wills  of  her  grandfather  George^i 
Talbot  in  1708  and  widow  Anne  Talbot  in  1715.  In 
1726  she  deposed,  ae.  26,  in  the  suit  over  the  estate  of 
John  Blore;  she  mentions  her  marriage  to  William 
Hodgkinson  about  1719. 

Children  by  second  marriage  (Osbaldeston)  : 

5.  Anne,  bapt.  at  Blackburn  Church  11  Aug.  1706; 
mentioned  in  the  wills  of  her  grandfather  George^i 
Talbot  in  1708  and  widow  Anne  Talbot  in  1715;  is 
also  named  in  Mr.  Abram's  *'old  document"  which 
states  she  m.  Robert  Bennett  6f  Ribchester.  This 
statement  is  evidently  correct,  as  the  Whalley  regis- 
ters have  the  burial  on  13  June  1728  of -"William  Ben- 
net,  son  of  Robert  Bennet  of  Carr  Hall  in  Billing  ton". 

6.  George,  b.  doubtless  in  1709,  as  he  is  not  named  in 
the  will  of  his  grandfather  George^i  Talbot  dated  18 
Dec.  1708,  but  is  named  in  the  will  of  widow  Anne 
Talbot  in  1715.  According  to  Mr.  Abram's  "old 
document"  he  died  aged  19  years;  this  statement  is 
proved  correct  by  the  registers  of  Whalley:  "George 
Osbaldeston,  son  of  Mr.  Robert  Osbaldeston  of  Carr 
Hall   in   Billington,   gent.,   buried   May   30,    1728". 

22.  GEORGE22  TALBOT,  second  son  of  George^i  and  Anne 
(Ryley)  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  was  born  about  1654.  Only  two 
records  of  his  existence  have  been  found  in  England.  By  the 
will  of  his  father  dated  18  Dec.  1708,  he  was  to  succeed  to  Carr 
Hall,  "  if  he  happen  to  be  alive  and  to  appear  at  Carr  aforesaid 
in  right  sense  and  good  understanding".  (See  ante,  p.  69.) 
He  would  have  been  at  this  time  about  fifty-five  years  of  age; 
but  this  is  the  earliest  mention  of  him  that  has  been  discovered 
in  extensive  research  in  England;  and  the  way  in  which  he  is 
mentioned  indicates  he  had  been  missing  many  years  and  that 
his  father  did  not  know  where  he  was,  or  whether  he  was  living 
or  dead.  The  expression  "right  sense  and  good  understanding" 
is  difficult  to  understand;  but  it  probably  refers  to  some  serious 
disagreement  with  his  father,  perhaps  due  to  the  son  breaking 
away  from  the  ancestral  Catholic  faith,  or  to  difficulties  with 
his  stepmother,  as  a  result  of  which  he  left  home  and  kept  his 
whereabouts  unknown.  At  just  what  time  he  had  disappeared, 
the  will  does  not  indicate;  but  as  James  Parkinson,  in  his  suit 
against  George^^  Talbot,  claimed  the  latter  had  promised  in 
1693  to  convey  Carr  Hall  to  him  on  his  marriage  with  Mary 


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Talbot,  it  is  evident  that  the  son  and  heir  George^  Talbot  had 
disappeared  long  before  this  year;  if  the  latter  was  known  to  be 
then  living,  Parkinson's  claim  would  have  been  absurd.  (See 
ante,  p.  65.)  In  his  suit  against  Braddyll  in  1682,  George^^ 
Talbot  mentions  an  incident  many  years  before,  the  witnesses 
to  which  were  "either  dead  or  removed  beyond  the  seas  where 
unknown  to  your  orator";  this  may  refer  to  his  missing  son 
George22  Talbot.     (See  ante,  p.  59.) 

The  only  other  mention  found  in  England  of  George^^  Talbot, 
is  in  Mr.  Abram's  remarkable  "old  document"  of  about  1793, 
which  states  that  he  "emigrated  to  New  England".  (See 
antCy  p.  74;  also  Appendix  IV.,  p.  104.)  As  above  shown,  nearly 
every  statement  of  this  "old  document",  even  in  minute  details, 
has  been  proved  by  other  sources  to  be  correct,  and  no  errors 
in  it  have  been  found;  it  was  probably  drawn  up  from  informa- 
tion derived  through  the  centenarian  Mary^  (Talbot)  Parkinson- 
Osbaldeston,  bom  about  1659,  died  in  1763,  sister  of  George^^ 
Talbot;  and  she  probably  had  knowledge  of  what  became  of  her 
brother.  But  no  trace  of  any  such  George  Talbot  can  be  found 
in  New  England.  We  are  therefore  convinced  that  George^ 
Talbot,  bom  about  1654,  who  disappeared  from  Carr  Hall,  was 
identical  with 

PETER  TALBOT,  born  before  1656,  who  first  appears  in  New 
England  in  1675,  being  on  the  tax-list  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  for 
that  year.  The  family  record  made  by  his  son  Capt.  George 
Talbot  of  Stoughton  and  long  preserved  in  the  family,  states 
that  his  "father  Peter  Talbot  was  born  in  Lancashire  old  Eng- 
land and  died  about  1704".  (See  "Descendants  of  Peter  Tal- 
bot" by  Newton  Talbot,  pp.  7  and  8.) 

Over  eighty  years  ago,  some  of  the  great-grandchildren  of 
Peter  Talbot  gave  a  traditionary  account  of  their  ancestor  which 
was  written  down  and  preserved*,  and  in  1855  was  printed. 
According  to  this  statement,  much  embellished  with  details, 
he  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  and  in  youth  was  kid- 
napped and  impressed  into  the  naval  service;  and  being  on  a 
vessel  saihng  by  the  Rhode  Island  coast,  he  deserted  at  night, 
escaped  to  shore  by  swimming,  and  made  his  way  north  to  Dor- 
chester as  secretly  as  he  could.  (See  "New  England  Historical 
and  Genealogical  Register",  vol.  9,  p.  129.)  This  legend  may 
be  partly  true,  especially  in  regard  to  his  desertion,  which 
would  provide  a  reason  for  his  discarding  his  name  "George" 

*  This  original  is  not  now  to  be  found. 


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and  assuming  the  name  "Peter"  instead.  It  is  also  significant 
that  at  the  time  Peter  Talbot  first  appears  in  New  England 
(1675),  George^^  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall,  claimed  in  this  volume 
to  be  his  father,  was  residing  in  Preston  co.  Lancashire,  then 
the  chief  seaport  of  north-western  England  (See  antCy  p.  49); 
so  his  son  could  readily  have  run  away  to  sea  at  that  time,  or 
been  seized  by  a  press-gang,  according  to  tradition,  impress- 
ment of  seamen  being  then  a  common  practice. 

That  George^^  Talbot  Jun.  of  Carr  Hall  who  disappeared  from 
his  family  and  "emigrated  to  New  England"  according  to  Mr. 
Abram*s  "old  document",  was  identical  with  the  colonist 
Peter  Talbot  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  is  further  indicated  by  the 
names  given  by  Peter  Talbot  to  his  children.  One  daughter, 
Mary,  was  evidently  named  for  her  mother  Mary  (Gold)  Tal- 
bot; but  none  of  the  names  of  the  other  children  of  Peter  Talbot 
are  found  in  the  families  of  either  of  his  wives.  The  eldest 
son,  Edward,  was  so  named,  we  believe,  in  memory  of  the 
child's  uncle  and  great-grandfather;  the  second  son,  Peter, 
bore  his  father's  assumed  name;  while  to  the  youngest  son, 
George,  was  given  the  name  which  we  claim  was  originally 
borne  in  England  by  his  father,  the  colonist  Peter  Talbot. 
The  eldest  daughter,  Dorothy,  was  evidently  named  for  her 
great-aunt  Dorothy  Talbot. 

But  the  final  and  clinching  evidence  of  the  parentage  of 
Peter  Talbot,  appears  in  a  deposition  in  New  England  made 
after  his  death.  When  Catherine  Eden  attempted  to  break  the 
will  of  her  father  George^i  Talbot  of  Carr  Hall  in  1709,  she  ap- 
parently had  reason  to  believe  that  her  brother,  the  missing 
George,  was  living  in  New  England;  and  evidently  she  had  word 
sent  thither,  either  to  her  brother  or  his  family  or  to  the  authori- 
ties, stating  that  her  father  was  dead,  and  that  his  son  should 
come  home  to  succeed  to  the  estate.  At  this  time,  Peter  Tal- 
bot, the  colonist,  had  been  dead  over  five  years,  having  been 
lost  at  sea  on  a  voyage  to  England  in  1704,  according  to  tradi- 
tion among  his  descendants.  But  his  eldest  surviving  son, 
Peter  Talbot  Jun.,  then  a  young  man  of  about  twenty-five 
years,  probably  thought  he  might  succeed  to  the  inheritance  as 
his  father's  heir.  In  order  to  establish  his  identity,  he  there- 
fore proceeded  to  secure  the  following  aflSdavit,  taken  by 
strange  coincidence  on  the  very  day  the  trial  to  break  the  will 
was  started  at  Chester,  which  affidavit  is  preserved  in  the  files 
of  the  Middlesex  County  Court  at  East  Cambridge,  Mass. 


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"Sept.  22,  1709,  at  the  request  of  Peter  Talbot,  Daniel  Hoar 
aged  about  sixty  years  and  Richard  Stratton  aged  about  45 
years,  depose  that  about  five  years  ago  they  heard  Peter  Talbot, 
formerly  of  Chelmsford,  say  that  he  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Blackburn,  Lancashire,  in  the  realm  of  England,  son  of  one 
George  Talbot ;  and  further  saith  not.  Sworn  before  me,  Francis 
Foxcroft,  J.  P." 

These  two  deponents,  Daniel  Hoar  and  Richard  Stratton, 
were  parties  to  a  deed  of  31  May  1704,  by  which  the  colonist 
Peter  Talbot  and  his  wife  Hannah,  then  stated  to  be  of  Boston, 
sold  some  land  he  owned  in  Chelmsford;  this  deed  is  the  last 
mention  found  in  New  England  of  Peter  Talbot,  and  was  exe- 
cuted probably  just  before  he  sailed  on  the  voyage  on  which  he 
was  lost.  It  may  be  confidently  surmised  that  it  was  at  this 
time  he  casually  informed  Hoar  and  Stratton  of  his  birthplace 
and  parentage,  and  that  he  was  going  to  England  to  see  his 
relatives. 

The  combination  of  evidences  found  in  England  and  New 
England,  establish  beyond  doubt  that  George^^  Talbot  Jun.,  of 
Carr  Hall  was  identical  with  Peter  Talbot  the  New  England 
colonist.  But  mysteries  still  remain.  Why  did  he  emigrate, 
change  his  first  name,  and  keep  his  whereabouts  unknown  to 
his  father?  Why  did  he  conceal  his  true  name  from  his  children, 
apparently  to  the  end?  How  did  his  sister  Catherine  Eden  in 
England  know  or  at  least  have  reason  to  believe  that  he  was  in 
New  England,  and  so  send  thither  for  him  after  their  father's 
death?  We  can  only  make  surmises.  A  change  in  religion 
from  the  Catholic  to  the  Protestant  faith,  or  bitter  troubles  with 
his  step-mother  may  have  estranged  him  from  his  father,  and 
caused  him  to  leave  home  and  desire  his  whereabouts  to  remain 
unknown.  Perhaps  he  enlisted  or  was  impressed  into  the  navy, 
and  by  desertion  rendered  himself  subject  to  severe  penalty; 
or  possibly  he  may  have  been  implicated  in  some  political  in- 
trigue or  other  difficulty,  for  which  he  was  seized  and  trans- 
ported for  Virginia,  but  escaped  in  the  manner  claimed  by  tradi- 
tion; in  either  of  these  cases,  permanent  or  at  least  long  con- 
cealment of  his  identity  may  have  been  necessary.  If  estranged 
from  his  father  and  step-mother,  perhaps  he  may  at  some  time 
have  communicated  with  his  sister.  It  is  doubtful  if  the  actual 
facts  in  these  matters  will  ever  come  to  light. 

At  the  time  of  the  arrival  of  Peter"  Talbot  in  New  England, 
the  colonies  were  in  a  fiourishing  condition.  Between  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims  in  1620,  and  the  year  1640,  some  twenty- 


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five  thousand  colonists  had  settled  in  the  wilderness  of  New 
England;  and  although  the  emigration  almost  ceased  in  1641 
upon  the  Puritan  party  coming  into  power  in  England,  the  popu- 
lation of  New  England  had  nearly  trebled  by  1675,  and  after 
the  crushing  of  the  Pequot  Indians  in  1637,  the  colonies  had 
been  practically  free  from  serious  Indian  depredations.  In  the 
spring  of  1675,  however,  Philip,  chief  of  the  Wampanoag 
Indians  on  the  easterly  shore  of  Narragansett  Bay,  formed 
an  alliance  with  numerous  other  Indian  tribes  in  a  supreme 
effort  to  completely  exterminate  or  drive  out  the  Puritan  colo- 
nists. During  this  two  years'  conflict,  known  as  "King  Philip's 
War",  twelve  of  the  frontier  towns  were  destroyed  by  the 
Indians,  forty  other  settlements  were  attacked  and  damaged, 
and  over  one  thousand  of  the  colonists  were  killed  or  wounded. 
After  six  months  of  varying  fortunes  and  severe  losses,  the  three 
colonies  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  Plymouth,  and  Connecticut, 
united  in  December  1675  in  raising  an  army  of  one  thousand 
men  to  strike  the  savages  a  crushing  blow.  In  a  bitterly  cold 
blizzard,  this  force  marched  against  the  fortified  stronghold  of 
the  Narragansetts,  the  most  powerful  of  the  Indian  tribes, 
situated  on  an  island  in  the  center  of  an  ordinarily  inaccessible 
swamp  in  South  Kingston,  R.  I.;  but  on  account  of  the  extreme 
cold,  the  swamp  at  this  time  was  frozen,  and  thus  made  passable. 
The  colonial  army  surprised  the  Indians  on  21  Dec.  1675,  and 
after  a  bloody  conflict  was  completely  victorious,  the  Indian 
wigwams  being  ignited  and  the  tribe  nearly  annihilated  by  fire 
and  sword.  This  battle  is  known  as  "The  Great  Swamp  Fight" ; 
and  over  fifty  years  later  the  soldiers  who  participated  in  it  or 
their  eldest  male  descendants  were  granted  large  tracts  of  land 
by  the  Province  of  Massachusetts,  as  reward  for  this  service. 
Peter  Talbot  was  one  of  the  soldiers  in  this  campaign  and  his 
son  Capt.  George  Talbot  of  Stoughton  inherited  his  Narragan- 
sett claim  in  Narragansett  Township  No.  5,  now  Bedford,  N.  H. 
(Bodge's  "Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War",  pp.  433,  and  179-191.) 
Peter^^  Talbot  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  in  Dorchester  in 
1678  and  resided  there  until  1679  when  he  moved  to  Milton 
where  he  lived  some  five  years.  In  1684  he  removed  to  Chelms- 
ford where  his  first  wife  died  and  he  married  again,  and  he 
resided  there  until  1693  when  he  returned  to  Milton,  being  taxed 
there  in  1693  and  1694;  but  he  retained  the  ownership  of  a 
small  tract  of  land  in  Chelmsford  for  more  than  ten  years  longer. 
It  is  supposed  that  about  1695  he  leased  lands  in  the  Ponkapoag 
Indian  Reservation  (now  Canton,  Mass.),  where  it  is  claimed  he 


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settled  and  afterwards  resided.  On  31  May  1704,  Peter  Tal- 
bot of  Boston,  husbandman,  and  Hannah  his  wife,  for  £10 
conveyed  to  Richard  Stratton  of  Boston,  miller,  a  parcel  of 
land  containing  six  acres  in  a  place  called  Robin's  Hill  in  Chelms- 
ford, formerly  the  possession  of  Henry  Sparks.  Witnesses: 
John  Sharlock,  Daniel  Hoar,  and  George  Tolbutt.  Ac- 
knowledged By  Peter  Talbot  and  Hannah  Talbot  3  June  1704. 
(Middlesex  County  Deeds,  vol.  13,  p.  677.)  This  is  the  last 
record  found  of  Peter  Talbot;  and  probably  he  soon  started  for 
England  and  was  lost  at  sea  during  the  voyage  in  1704,  according 
to  tradition. 

Peter^^  Talbot  married  first,  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  12  Jan. 
1677/8,  Mrs.  Mary  (Gold)  Wadell,  born  in  Braintree,  Mass., 
23  Dec.  1651,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Rose  Gold  (emigrants  to 
New  England),  and  widow  of  John  Wadell  of  Chelmsford;  she 
died  in  Chelmsford  18  Aug.  1687,  having  had  five  children  by 
Talbot.  He  married  secondly,  in  Chelmsford,  29  Dec.  1687, 
Mrs.  Hannah  (Clark)  Frizell,  born  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  13 
Feb.  1645/6,  daughter  of  William  and  Margery  Clark  (emi- 
grants to  New  England),  and  widow  of  William  Frizell  of  Con- 
cord, Mass.  She  had  one  son  by  Talbot,  and  was  living  on  31 
May  1704,  when  they  sold  his  Chelmsford  land. 

Children  by  first  wife  (i.-iii.  recorded  in  Milton;  iv.-v.  in 
Chelmsford) : 

i.  Edward23,  b.  31  Mar.  1679;  evidently  named  for  his  great- 
grandfather or  for  his  uncle  "who  d.  in  Italy";  no  further 
record;  according  to  tradition  he  was  killed  in  childhood  by 
the  Indians  in  Chelmsford, 
ii.  Dorothy,  b.  20  Feb.  1680/1;  evidently  named  for  her  great- 
aunt  Dorothy2i  Talbot,  or  her  great-grandmother  Dorothy 
Braddyll;  m.  in  1704,  James  Cutting  of  Watertown,  Mass., 
later  of  Windham  County,  Conn, 
iii.  Mary,  b.  15  Jan.  1682/3;  named  for  her  mother;  no  further 

record;  probably  d.  young, 
iv.  Peter,  b.  1  Jan.  1684/5;  on  22  Sept.  1709,  secured  the  deposi- 
tion about  his  father,  previously  given.  (See  arde,  p.  81.) 
On  20  Sept.  and  1  Dec.  1736,  James  Cutting  and  Dorothy 
his  wife,  of  Windham  County,  Conn.,  and  Eleazer  Puffer 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  of  Suffolk  County,  Mass.,  release  to 
their  brother  Capt.  George  Talbot,  their  interest  in  any  land 
grants  made  or  to  be  made  by  the  Province  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  to  their  brother  Peter  Talbot,  supposed  to  be  deceased. 
(Suffolk  CO.  Deeds,  vol.  126,  pp.  161-2.)  This  expression 
indicates  that  Peter  Talbot  disappeared;  he  may  have  died  in 
the  Indian  Wars,  or  perished  at  sea  on  a  futile  trip  to  Eng- 


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land  to  claim  succession  to  his  father's  rights  to  Carr  Hall; 
his  obtaining  the  deposition  as  to  his  father  and  grandfather, 
favors  the  latter  supposition. 
V.  Elizabeth,  b.  13  Jan.  1686/7;  m.  (1),  27  Nov.  1713,  Eleazer 
Puffer  of  Stoughton;  m.  (2),  3  Aug.  1748,  Samuel  Rousau 
of  Stoughton. 
Child  by  second  wife : 

vi.  Capt.  George23,  b.  in  Chelmsford  28  Dec.  1688;  evidently 
named  for  his  father.  When  a  child  he  was  taken  by  his  par- 
ents in  their  removal  to  the  Ponkapoag  Indian  Reservation 
(now  Canton,  Mass.) .  Upon  his  marriage  in  1707,  he  leased  of 
Thomas  Vose  for  twelve  years  a  farm  in  the  north-east  corner 
of  the  present  town  of  Canton  (then  part  of  Dorchester). 
In  1720  he  purchased  for  £111  a  farm  of  160  acres  in  that  part 
of  Dorchester  which  in  1726  became  the  south-east  part  of 
the  new  town  of  Stoughton,  whither  he  removed.  Here  he 
became  a  prosperous  and  prominent  man,  constantly  increas- 
ing his  landed  possessions,  serving  in  numerous  town  offices, 
and  holding  commissions  as  captain  of  the  local  military  com- 
pany and  justice  of  the  peace,  then  offices  of  distinction.  On 
4  Apr.  1714,  both  he  and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  full  com- 
munion in  the  Milton  church,  and  on  12  Nov.  1717  they  were 
dismissed  to  the  newly-formed  church  in  Dorchester  New 
Village  (Stoughton).  He  is  represented  by  tradition  as  a 
man  of  great  piety  and  high  character.  He  d.  at  his  home- 
stead in  Stoughton  31  July  1760,  aged  seventy-one  years. 
He  was  ancestor  of  all  of  the  Talbot  name  descended  from 
Peter  Talbot. 

He  m.  (1),  18  Feb.  1706/7,  Mary  Turell,  b.  in  Boston 
10  June  1683,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Anna  (Barrell)  Turell; 
she  had  nine  children  and  d.  24  Apr.  1736. 

He  m.  (2),  27  July  1737,  Elizabeth  Withington,  b.  in 
Dorchester,  in  June  1696,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Thankful! 
(Pond)  Withington.     She  d.  30  Apr.  1774;  no  children. 

Children  by  first  marriage: 

1.  Mary2S  b.  24  Mar.  1708;  m.  1729,  George  Allen. 

2.  Daniel,  b.  7  Mar.  1709/10. 

3.  Hannah,  b.  1  May  1712;  m.  1  May  1735,  David  Gay. 

4.  George,  b.  24  Oct.  1714. 

5.  Peter,  b.  27  Feb.  1716/17. 

6.  Sarah,  b.  23  Aug.  1719;  m.  29  Nov.  1739,  Benjamin 
White. 

7.  Jerusha,  b.  6  Oct.  1721;  m.  20  Nov.  1746,  Dea. 
Jonathan   Capen. 

8.  Ebenezer,  b.  4  Dec.  1723. 

9.  Experience,  b.  20  Feb.  1726/7;  m.  29  Oct.  1747, 
Joseph  Smith. 


APPENDIX  I 

PEDIGREE  OF  TALBOT,  EARLS  OF  SHREWS- 
BURY 


HUGH3  TALEBOT,  born  about  1085,  (said  to  be  younger 
son  of  Richard^  Talebot  recorded  in  Domesday  Book,  who  is 
supposed  to  be  son  of  Le  Sire  Talebot  who  came  into  England 
from  Normandy  in  1066  with  William  the  Conqueror*),  was 
made  commander  of  the  Castle  of  Plessey  in  1118  by  his  first 
cousin  Hugh  de  Gournay,  then  in  rebellion  against  King  Henry 

I.  Hugh  Talebot  late  in  life  assumed  the  habit  of  a  monk  and 
retired  into  the  monastery  of  Beaubec  in  Normandy  where  he 
died.     He  is  said  to  have  had  three  sons,  of  whom, 

RICHARD^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1120,  is  claimed  to  be 
the  Richard  Talebot  who  about  1155  obtained  from  King  Henry 

II.  a  grant  in  capite  of  the  lordship  of  Eccleswall  in  Linton, 
County  Hereford,  which  grant  was  also  confirmed  in  1189  by 
King  Richard  I.  on  payment  of  200  marks.  From  this  Richard 
Talebot  the  descent  can  be  traced  with  certainty,  as  these  estates 
in  Linton  formed  the  main  seat  of  the  family  for  many  genera- 
tions. He  married  a  daughter  of  Stephen  Bulmer  of  Appletree- 
wick,  Yorkshire,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 

GILBERT^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1150,  who  was  present 
at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  I.  in  1189,  by  whom  he  was 
granted  additional  lands  in  Linton  for  military  services  as  com- 
mander of  Ludlow  Castle.  He  was  living  as  late  as  1199  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

RICHARD^  TALEBOT,  born  about  1180,  who  married 
Aldsta  (Bassett)  Montague,  daughter  of  Allan  Bassett,  Baron 
of  Wycombe,  and  widow  of  Dreux  de  Montague.  Both  were 
living  in  1231.  They  had  a  son  Richard^  Talbot  who  became 
Bishop  of  London  in  1262,  and  an  eldest  son, 

*  See  antey  p.  3. 


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GILBERT^  TALBOT,  born  about  1215,  who  succeeded  to  the 
family  estates  and  was  later  made  governor  of  the  castles  of 
Grismond,  Skinfrith,  and  Blancminster  by  King  Henry  III., 
and  also  was  appointed  a  justice  for  the  County  of  Hereford. 
He  married  Gwendoline,  daughter  of  Rhys  ap  Griffith,  King  of 
South  Wales,  and  thereupon  relinquished  his  paternal  ancestral 
arms,  viz..  Bendy  of  ten,  argent  and  gules,  and  assumed  for 
arms.  Gules,  a  lion  rampant  within  a  bordure  engrailed,  or,  the 
armorial  ensigns  of  the  Princes  of  South  Wales,  which  arms  his 
descendants  have  ever  since  borne.  He  died  in  1274  and  was 
succeeded  by  his  son 

RICHARDS  TALBOT,  born  about  1245,  who  was  sheriff 
of  Gloucestershire  in  1300  and  died  in  1306.  He  married 
Sarah  de  Beauchamp,  daughter  of  William  de  Beauchamp, 
Earl  of  Warwick.     Their  eldest  son, 

SIR  GILBERT^  TALBOT,  KNT.,  first  Baron  Talbot,  born 
about  1275,  inherited  the  family  estates,  served  in  the  expedition 
against  Scotland  in  1298,  was  appointed  governor  of  Gloucester 
Castle  in  1323,  and  was  summoned  to  Parliament  as  a  Baron 
from  1331-1343.  He  died  in  1346.  By  his  wife  Anne  Boteler, 
daughter  of  William  Boteler  of  Wemme,  he  had  a  son  and  heir, 

SIR  RICHARDio  TALBOT,  KNT.,  second  Baron,  born  in 
1302,  was  summoned  to  Parliament  from  1331  to  1335.  In 
1332  he  claimed  certain  Scottish  estates  in  right  of  his  wife,  and 
adhering  to  Edward  Baliol  invaded  that  Kingdom  and  defeated 
the  Scots  at  Gleddesmore;  but  two  years  later  he  was  made  a 
prisoner  and  had  to  pay  2,000  marks  for  redemption.  In  1336 
he  was  made  governor  of  Berwick  Castle,  in  1346  succeeded  to 
his  father's  estates,  in  1355  served  in  the  expedition  to  France, 
and  died  23  Oct.  1356.  He  married  in  1325  Elizabeth  Comyn, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Comyn,  Lord  of  Goodrich  Castle. 
Their  eldest  surviving  son  and  heir, 

GILBERT"  TALBOT,  third  Baron,  born  in  1332,  succeeded 
to  the  family  estates  in  1356,  and  was  summoned  to  Parliament 
from  1362  to  1386.  He  served  in  the  wars  in  France  under  the 
Black  Prince,  and  died  24  Apr.  1387.  He  married,  first,  about 
1360,  Petronilla  Butler,  daughter  of  James  Butler,  Earl 
of  Ormonde,  by  Eleanor  his  wife,  daughter  of  Humphrey  de 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford,  by  his  wife  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Plan- 
tagenet,  daughter  of  King  Edward  I.    Their  son. 


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IMCHARD12  TALBOT,  fourth  Baron,  born  about  1361,  was 
summoned  to  Parliament  from  1384  to  1393.  He  inherited  the 
family  estates  on  the  death  of  his  father  in  1387  and  died  7 
Sept.  1396.  He  married  about  1382,  Ankaret  Le  Strange, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Le  Strange,  Baron  Strange  of 
Blackmere.  They  had  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  the 
eldest  son,  Gilbert^^  Talbot,  born  in  1383,  succeeded  to  the 
estates  in  1396,  was  summoned  to  Parliament  as  fifth  Baron 
from  1404  to  1417,  and  died  19  Oct.  1419,  leaving  a  sole  child 
and  heiress  Ankaret^^  Talbot,  who  died  in  1421  at  the  age  of 
four  years.     The  second  son, 

SIR  J0HN13  TALBOT,  K.  G.,  first  Earl  of  Shrewsbury 
born  about  1385,  married  in  1406,  Maud  Nevill,  eldest  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Thomas  Nevill,  Lord  Furnivall,  by  whom  he 
acquired  vast  estates  in  Hallamshire  (including  the  Castle  of 
Sheffield),  in  consequence  of  which  he  was  summoned  to  Parlia- 
ment from  1409  to  1420  as  John  Talbot,  Lord  Furnival.  On 
the  death  in  childhood  of  his  niece,  Ankaret^^  Talbot,  in  1421, 
he  succeeded  also  to  the  ancient  Talbot  estates  in  Linton  and  to 
the  Baronies  of  Talbot  and  Strange  of  Blackmere. 

From  1412  to  1420  he  served  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland; 
but  in  1422  he  entered  into  military  pursuits  and  became  one  of 
the  most  renowned  warriors  of  the  martial  age  in  which  he 
lived.  He  gloriously  sustained  the  cause  of  King  Henry  VL 
throughout  his  French  realm  in  battle  after  battle,  until  the 
very  name  of  Talbot  became  a  terror  to  his  foes.  Once  his 
forces  were  defeated  by  the  army  of  the  Maid  of  Orleans  at  the 
Battle  of  Patay  in  1429,  and  he  himself  was  taken  prisoner; 
but  four  years  later  he  was  exchanged,  and  soon  again  in  com- 
mand of  an  English  army.  For  his  brilliant  achievements  he 
was  created  in  1442  Earl  of  Shrewsbury  and  in  1446  Earl  of 
Waterford.  Later  he  was  commander  of  the  Castle  of  Falaise 
in  Normandy  (the  birthplace  of  William  the  Conqueror), 
to  which  he  added  a  massive  keep,  still  known  as  the  Talbot 
Tower.  In  1453  he  was  again  in  command  of  an  English  army 
in  France  and  was  killed  by  a  cannon  shot  at  the  Battle  of 
Chastillon,  17  July  1453.  He  had  been  victorious  in  forty 
battles,  and  his  death  proved  fatal  to  English  dominion  on  the 
Continent.  From  this  great  Earl,  the  present  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, the  Premier  Earl  of  England,  is  directly  descended, 
(See  Burke's  "Peerage"  for  1904,  pp.  1411-12;  and  G.  E.  Cock- 
ayne's "Complete  Peerage",  vol.  7,  pp.  359-61,  and  136-7.) 


APPENDIX  II 
PEDIGREE  OF  TALBOT  OF  SALESBURY 


J0HN13  TALBOT,  bora  about  1385,  son  of  Williami^  Talbot 
a  younger  son  of  Sir  Edmund^^  Talbot,  Knt.,  of  Bashall  (see 
ante,  p.  11),  having  divorced  in  1415  his  first  wife  Margery  (by 
whom  he  had  had  three  sons),  married  secondly,  about  1421, 
Isabella  de  Cliderou  (Clitheroe).  She  was  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Richard  de  Cliderou,  and  brought  to  her  husband  the 
manor  of  Salesbury  and  other  estates  in  that  region  comprising 
in  all  about  a  thousand  acres.  Thus  was  established  a  new 
and  important  branch  of  the  Talbot  family  which  continued 
seated  at  Salesbury  Hall  until  1679  when  an  heiress,  Dorothy^^ 
Talbot  carried  the  estates  in  marriage  to  the  Warren  family. 
John^^  Talbot  died  18  Apr.  1449;  his  wife  Isabella  had  died  1 
Aug.  1432. 

Children  by  first  wife  Margery: 
i.  Hughes  b.  about  1410. 
ii.  Christopher. 
iii.  Alexander. 
Children  by  second  wife  Isabella  de  Cliderou: 
iv.  A  daughter"  ,  b.  about  1423. 
V.  John,  b.  about  1425. 

vi.   A  DAUGHTER. 

vii.  Richard. 
viii.  A  daughter. 
ix.  Lawrence. 

J0HN14  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  of  Salesbury,  bora  about  1425, 
was  eldest  son  of  John^^  Talbot  by  the  latter's  second  wife  Isa- 
bella de  Cliderou,  and  so  succeeded  to  the  manor  of  Salesbury 
and  the  other  estates  of  his  mother.  He  is  called  six  years  old 
in  the  inquisition  post  mortem  held  after  the  death  of  his 
mother  in  1432,  and  twenty-four  years  old  at  the  inquisition 


post  mortem  held  after  the  death  of  his  father  in  1449.  In 
1465  he  assisted  his  second-cousin  Sir  Thomas^*  Talbot,  Knt., 
of  Bashall,  in  the  capture  of  King  Henry  VI.,  for  which  service 
he  was  rewarded  with  a  pension  by  King  Edward  IV.  He  died 
in  1484.  He  married  about  1449,  Johanna  Radcliffe, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Radcliffe,  Knt.,  of  Ordsall. 
Children: 

i.  JoHN^S  b.  about  1450. 
ii.  Ralph,  a  captain  at  Calais, 
iii.  William. 
iv.  Myles. 
V.  Roger. 

vi.  Isabella,  m.  Richard  Ashton. 
vii.  Elizabeth,  m.  Lawrence  Ainsworth. 
viii.  Margaret 
ix.  Alice,  m.  Giles  Levesey. 
X.  Lucy,  m.  Ralph  Ashton. 

SIR  J0HN15  TALBOT,  KNT.,  of  Salesbury,  born  about  1450, 
was  knighted  at  the  Battle  of  Hutton  Field  in  1483,  succeeded 
to  the  family  estates  on  his  father's  death  the  next  year,  and 
had  from  King  Richard  III.  a  grant  of  continuation  of  his 
father's  pension.  He  died  10  Aug.  1511.  He  married  Anne 
Ashton,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Ashton  of  Middleton,  Knt. 

Children: 

i.  John18,  b.  about  1477. 

ii.  Ralph. 
iii.  Richard. 
iv.  Thomas. 

V.  Anne,  m.  Richard  Rishton. 
vi.  Margery,  m.  Alan  Singleton. 
vii.  Ellen,  m.  John  Singleton. 

JOHNi«  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  of  Salesbury,  born  about  1477, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years  succeeded  his  father  in  1511, 
but  enjoyed  the  estates  but  a  few  years,  as  he  died  in  1515.  He 
married  about  1500,  Isabella  Towneley,  daughter  of  Richard 
Towneley. 
Children: 

i.  John",  b.  in  1501. 
ii.  Richard. 
iii.  Hugh. 
iv.  William. 
V.  Anne,  m.  Edmund  Hopwood. 


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J0HN17  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  of  Salesbury,  born  in  1501,  when 
fourteen  years  old  inherited  the  family  estates.     He  entered  his 
family  and  arms  in  the  Visitation  of  Lancashire  of  1533,  wherein 
he  is  termed  by  the  herald  "  a  very  gentle  esquier  and  worthy 
to  be  taken  paynes  for".     As  the  herald  mentioned  some  of  the 
gentry  in  a  much  less  complimentary  strain,  it  would  seem  likely 
that  John  Talbot  handed  the  herald  a  generous  fee!    He  died 
30  Aug.  1551,  leaving  a  will  made  two  days  previously.     He 
married  first,  about  1521,  Anne  Sherburne,  daughter  of  Hugh 
Sherburne;  and  he  married  secondly,  in  1532,  Anne  Bannister, 
daughter  of  Richard  Bannister  of  Altham. 
Children  by  first  marriage: 
i.  JoHNis,  b.  about  1523. 
ii.  Jane. 

iii.  Anne,  m.  John  Hothersall. 
iv.  Margaret. 

Children  by  second  marriage: 

v.  Thomas,  b.  about  1533;  became  a  celebrated  antiquarian 
and  genealogist  and  Keeper  of  the  Records  in  the  Tower  of 
London, 
vi.  Michael. 
vii.  John  "the  younger", 
viii.  Richard. 
ix.  Nicholas. 
X.  Robert. 
xi.  Beatrice. 

xii.  Elizabeth,  m.  Humphrey  Wtke. 
xiii.  Isabel,  m.  Wilfred  Bannister. 

J0HN18  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  of  Salesbury,  born  about  1523, 
succeeded  his  father  in  1551,  and  adhered  to  the  Catholic  faith 
after  the  Reformation.  The  inquisition  post  mortem  taken 
after  his  death  on  1  Sept.  1588,  states  that  his  heir  was  his  grand- 
son John  Talbot,  aged  seven  years,  son  of  George  Talbot,  de- 
ceased. 

He  married  first,  Alice  Osbaldeston  daughter  of  Sir  Alexan- 
der Osbaldeston,  Knt.;  she  died  without  issue  in  1553.  He 
married  secondly,  in  1554,  Mary  Moore,  by  whom  he  had  three 
illegitimate  sons  born  before  marriage,  and  a  son  and  two 
daughters  who  were  legitimate. 

Children,  (i.-iii.  illegitimate): 
i.  JoHNi9,  b.  about  1548. 

ii.  Robert,  b.  about  1550;  ancestor  of  the  Talbots  of  Cowhill 
in  Rishton.     (See  Appendix  HI.,  post,  pp.  93-94.) 


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iii.  Thomas,  b.  about  1552. 
iv.  George,  b.  about  1555;  eldest  legitimate  son. 
V.  Mary,  m.  John  Atherton. 
vi.  Frances,  m.  Peter  Barlow. 

GE0RGE19  TALBOT,  born  about  1555,  fourth  but  eldest 
legitimate  son  of  John^^  Talbot,  after  his  marriage  occupied 
Dinkley  Hall,  one  of  the  several  homesteads  owned  by  his 
father,  where  he  died  during  his  father's  lifetime,  26  Sept.  1584. 
His  will  dated  14  June  1584  names  his  father  John  Talbot  of 
Salesbury,  Esq.,  brother  Robert  Talbot,  wife's  sister  Anne 
Southworth,  cousin  William  Talbot,  son  John  Talbot,  and 
daughter  Mary  Talbot.  (Consistory  of  Chester.)  He  married 
Mary  Southworth,  second  daughter  of  Sir  John  Southworth, 
Knt. 

Children: 

i.  John2o,  b.  about  1581. 
ii.  Mary,  m.  John  Singleton. 

SIR  JOHN20  TALBOT,  KNT.,  of  Salesbury,  born  in  1581, 
succeeded  to  the  family  estates  on  the  death  of  his  grandfather 
in  1588,  and  on  20  Aug.  1617  was  knighted  by  King  James  I. 
When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  in  1642,  he  joined  the  Royalists, 
and  as  a  result  Salesbury  Hall  was  seized  and  plundered,  but 
not  destroyed,  and  later  all  his  estates  were  sequestered  by 
Parliament  and  subjected  to  heavy  fines.  He  died  in  Dec.  1659, 
and  was  buried  in  Blackburn  Church.  He  married  first  about 
1607,  Margaret  Barlow,  daughter  of  Sir  Alexander  Barlow, 
Knt.,  who  died  26  Dec.  1628.    He  married  secondly,  Margaret 

,  who  was  buried  at  Blackburn  6  June  1653. 

Children  by  first  wife: 

i.  JoHN^i,  b.  29  Aug.  1608. 
ii.  Alexander,  b.  1610;  d.  y. 

iii.  George,  b.  8  June  1612;  fought  in  the  Royalist  army  at  the 
storming  of  Preston  9  Feb.  1642,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner. 
In  1665  he  built  a  mansion  called  New  Hall  in  the  township 
of  Clayton-in-the-Dale,  where  he  d.  in  1678.  His  will  [date 
illegible],  proved  3  Feb.  1678,  gave  to  "reputed*  daughter 
Elizabeth*',  £40,  to  the  poor  of  Salesbury  and  Clayton  le  Dale 
10s.  each,  to  George  Pigott  of  Preston  a  signet  ring,  to  George 
Pigott  the  younger  of  Preston  three  pieces  of  gold,  and  to 
daughter  Margaret  Talbot  all  residue  of  estate.    Said  George 

*  She  was  probably  his  step-daughter  Elizabeth  Walmesley. 


9Z 

Pigotts  executors.    Inventory  £103.     (Chester  Probate  Rec- 
ords.)   He  m.  (1),  at  Blackburn,  20  Apr.  1657,  Anne  Park- 
inson, daughter  of  Robert  Parkinson  of  Fairsnape,  Gent. 
He  m.  (2),  in  1674,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Southworth)  Wal- 
MESLEY-NowELL,  b.  in  1620,  daughter  of  Thomas  Southworth 
of  Salmesbury,  and  widow  first  of  Richard  Walmesley  of 
Showley   (by  whom  she  had  a  daughter  Ehzabeth),   and 
secondly  of  John  Nowell  of  Meareley.    (See  Abram's  *'His- 
tory  of  Blackburn,"  p.  662.) 
Child  by  first  wife: 
1.  Margaret22,  b,  about  1659,  sole  child  and  heiress; 
living  1678;  later  history  untraced. 

iv.  Margaret",  m.  Thomas  Clayton. 
V.  Mary,  b.  1615;  bur.  11  July  1638,  unm. 

vi.  Thomas,  b.  31  Jan.  1616/17;  bur.  at  Blackburn  6  Nov.  1628, 
unm. 

vii.  Anne,  b.  1619,  m.  Alexander  Osbaldeston,  Esq.,  of  Osbal- 
deston,  and  had  ten  children.  He  entered  his  pedigree  in 
the  Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  1664,  and  was  bur.  at  Black- 
burn 11  Feb.  1670/1.     She  was  bur.  there  19  Mar.  1673. 

J0HN21  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  of  Salesbury,  born  29  Aug.  1608, 
as  eldest  son  and  heir  succeeded  to  the  inheritance  of  the  estates 
which  he  secured  after  the  restoration  of  Charles  II.  in  1660.  He 
was  buried  in  Blackburn  Church  11  Oct.  1677.  He  married 
first,  about  1630,  Margaret  Westby,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Westby  of  Mowbreck;  she  was  buried  at  Blackburn  27  June 
1634.  He  married  secondly,  Dorothy  Wilford,  daughter  of 
James  Wilford  of  Newman  Hall,  co.  Essex;  she  was  buried  at 
Blackburn  9  Sept.  1684. 

Children  by  first  wife: 

i.  John22,  b.  1630;  bur.  24  Feb.  1630/1. 
ii.  Margaret,  b.  about  1632;  bur.  15  Jan.  1636/7. 

Children  by  second  wife: 

iii.  John22,  d.  y. 

iv.  Dorothy,  b.  15  Feb.  1650,  only  surviving  child,  and  heiress  to 
all  the  estates  of  the  Talbots  of  Salesbury;  m.  in  1678,  Ed- 
ward Warren,  Esq.,  of  Poynton,  co.  Chester,  and  had  eight 
children.  The  Talbot  estates  continued  in  their  descendants 
until  1866  when  they  were  sold  to  Henry  Ward  of  Blackburn 
for  £140,000.  The  estates  then  comprised  a  total  of  2837 
acres,  3  roods,  and  34  perches. 

Note.  The  above  pedigree  is  taken  mainly  from  Abram's  "History 
of  Blackburn",  pp.  647-655. 


APPENDIX  III 

PEDIGREE    OF   TALBOT    OF   COWHILL    IN 

RISHTON 


R0BERT19  TALBOT,  born  about  1550,  second  son  of  Sir 
John^^  Talbot,  Knt.,  of  Salesbury,  but  born  before  his  parent's 
marriage,  is  mentioned  in  the  will  in  1584  of  his  younger  brother 
George^^  Talbot,  their  father's  legitimate  heir.  Robert  Talbot 
resided  in  Dinkley  Hall,  one  of  the  family  estates,  after  the 
decease  of  his  brother  George^^  Talbot.     (See  ante,  pp.  90-91.) 

He  married  Elizabeth  Hoghton,  daughter  of  Richard 
Hoghton  of  Lea. 

Children: 

i.  JOHN^O. 

ii.  George. 
iii.  Robert. 
iv.  Richard,  b.  about  1583. 

V.  Thomas. 

RICHARD20  TALBOT,  born  about  1583,  settled  at  Cowhill 
in  Rishton  where  he  died  in  Nov.  1654.  His  will  dated  2  Jan. 
1653/4,  directed  that  his  goods  be  divided  into  three  equal  parts, 
whereof  his  wife  Mary  to  have  one,  his  son  Thomas  one,  and  the 
third  to  his  executors  to  perform  these  legacies,  viz.;  to  son  and 
heir  John  5s.,  to  old  servant  Christopher  Hindle  a  new  bed,  and 
the  residue  to  the  daughter  of  Charlton  Hindle  of  Pleasington. 
Proved  13  Feb.  1654/5.     (P.C.C,  Aylett  238.) 

He  married  first,  about  1607,  Alice  Duckworth,  by  whom 

he  had  two  sons.    He  married  secondly,  Mary .  sister 

to  the  wife  of  Adam  Bolton  who  survived  him. 

Children  by  first  wife: 
i.  John",  b.  about  1608. 
ii   Thomas,  living  in  1669. 


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J0HN21  TALBOT,  born  about  1608,  resided  at  Cowhill  in 
Rishton  and  appears  with  his  three  sons  Thomas,  John,  and 
Robert,  on  the  Preston  Guild  Rolls  of  1662,  but  died  before  1669. 
He  married  at  Blackburn,  7  Feb.  1631/2,  Jennett  Clayton, 
daughter  of  John  Clayton  of  Clayton  Hey,  who  was  buried  at 
Clitheroe  6  Apr.  1684. 
Children: 

i.  Thomas22,  bapt.  at  Blackburn  3  Aug.  1634;  was  elected  a 
governor  of  the  Blackburn  Grammar  School  in  1667,  and  d.  in 
Aug.  1675.  He  m.  at  Blackburn,  26  Nov.  1657,  Mrs.  Mary 
(Ellison)  Cross,  bapt.  there  12  June  1632,  daughter  of 
John  Ellison,  and  widow  of  John  Cross  of  Altham. 
Children  bapt.  at  Blackburn: 

1.  Anne28,  b.  1658,  d.  y. 

2.  Alice,  bapt.  10  Mar.  1659/60. 

3.  John,  bapt.  28  Sept.  1662;  appears  on  Preston  Guild 
RoUs  of  1682,  1702,  and  1722. 

4.  Mary,  b.  probably  in  1664. 

5.  Richard,  bapt.  16  Mar.  1666/7;  mentioned  on  Preston 
Guild  Rolls  in  1682. 

Elizabeth,  bapt.  30  Jan.  1669/70. 

ii.  Anne22,  m.  Leonard  Nowell  of  Clitheroe. 

iii.  John,  bapt.  17  May  1641;  was  of  Rishton  and  later  of  Clay- 
ton, and  d.  before  1682  when  he  is  termed  deceased  and  his 
four  sons  are  named  as  of  Clayton  on  the  Preston  Guild 
Rolls  of  1682.  He  m.  in  1665,  Mary  Sudell,  daughter  of 
John  and  Alice  Sudell  of  Stopping  Hey  in  Wilpshire,  whose 
will  dated  19  Nov.  1685,  mentions  his  grandchildren  Thomas 
and  Samuel  Talbot. 
Children: 

1.  Richard*',  b.  1666. 

2.  John,  b.  1669. 

3.  Thomas. 

4.  Samuel. 

iv.  Robert22,  b.  about  1643,  settled  in  Clitheroe  where  he  was 
bur.  20  June  1675.    He  m.  in  1666,  Isabella  Lawson,  who 
d.  in  1703. 
Children: 

1.  John23,  b.  1668;  bur.  at  CUtheroe  16  Oct.  1677. 

2.  George,  b.  about  1671;  mentioned  on  the  Preston 
Guild  Rolls  of  1682,  as  "George  Talbot,  son  of  Robert 
of  Clitheroe." 

Note.  The  above  pedigree  is  based  on  one  in  Abram's  "History  of 
Blackburn",  pp.  642-3,  and  a  manuscript  pedigree  drawn  up  in  1669 
by  Christopher  Towneley,  now  in  the  British  Museum,  London,  Addi- 
tional Mss.  no.  30146,  p.  118. 


APPENDIX  IV 
PEDIGREE   OF   TALBOTS    OF    CARR   HALL 

By  W.  A.  Abram 

[William  Alexander  Abram,  Esq.,  of  Blackburn,  England, 
was  a  journalist  by  profession,  but  became  widely  known  and 
distinguished  as  an  antiquarian,  historian,  and  genealogist.  In 
1877  he  published  his  monumental  work,  "A  History  of  Black- 
burn", a  volume  of  some  eight  hundred  pages  of  the  greatest 
historical  interest  and  value,  and  also  containing  genealogies  of 
over  three  hundred  of  the  old  families  connected  with  the 
parish.  The  "Preston  Guild  Rolls",  published  by  the  Record 
Society  in  1884,  were  also  transcribed  and  edited  by  him. 

Besides  the  above  two  important  works,  Mr.  Abram  was  a  con- 
stant contributor  of  antiquarian  articles  to  various  newspapers 
in  Blackburn  and  vicinity  for  over  twenty  years  from  1873  to 
1894,  except  during  the  period  1881  to  1887  when  all  his  atten- 
tion was  occupied  as  editor-in-chief  of  the  "Blackburn  Times". 
During  the  score  of  years  named,  he  printed  over  six  hundred 
articles  in  the  "Preston  Guardian",  "Blackburn  Weekly  Ex- 
press and  Standard",  and  "  Blackburn  Times".  Mr.  Abram  was 
a  member  of  the  Historic  Society  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire, 
the  Record  Society,  and  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  London, 
and  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society.  He  died  in  1894, 
eleven  years  before  the  writer  visited  Blackburn  in  November 
1905  in  search  of  the  ancestry  of  Peter  Talbot;  but  through  the 
kindness  of  his  son,  G.  P.  Abram,  Esq.,  of  Blackburn,  and  of  Mr. 
Ashton,  librarian  of  the  Blackburn  Free  Library,  the  writer 
was  enabled  to  see  all  the  six  hundred  newspaper  articles  written 
by  Mr.  Abram.  Among  these  articles  was  a  valuable  and 
interesting  three  column  account  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  Hall 
compiled  by  Mr.  Abram  and  printed  in  the  "Blackburn  Times" 
of  Saturday  27  May  1893.  This  article  is  of  the  greatest 
importance,  as  in  it  Mr.  Abram  mentions  the  fact  that  he  had 
seen  an  old  document y  which  states  that  George  Talbot  Jun., 


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of  Carr  Hall  emigrated  to  New  England.  Mr.  Abram's  son 
kindly  presented  to  the  writer  the  only  copy  of  this  article 
known  to  be  preserved,  a  complete  verbation  copy  of  which  is 
given  below,  with  annotations  by  the  writer  who  from  very 
extensive  research  on  this  family  has  been  able  to  correct  a  few 
slight  errors  in  Mr.  Abram's  account. 

— J.  Gardner  Bartlett.] 

ANCIENT  HOUSES  AROUND  BLACKBURN 

CARR  HALL,  WH^PSHIRE, 
AND  ITS  FORMER  OWNERS,  THE  TALBOTS  OF   CARR 

By  W.  a.  Abram. 


The  neat  engraving  placed  above  depicts,  for  the  first  time  as  an 
illustration  to  a  printed  account,  the  antiquated  house  which  bears  the 
name  of  Carr,  or  Carr  Hall,  which  is  situated  about  four  miles  from  the 
town  of  Blackbm-n,  to  the  north-eastward,  on  the  further  border  of  the 
township  of  Wilpshire,  the  nearer  portion  of  which  has  now  become  a 
pleasant  and  picturesque  residential  suburb  of  Blackburn.  [Note  l.j 
The  traveller  on  the  high  road  from  Blackburn  to  Whalley,  soon  after 
he  has  passed  the  highest  point  on  the  road,  a  little  beyond  the  modern 
village,  and  begins  to  descend  into  the  Ribble  valley,  where  the  scene 
before  him  is  so  strikingly  fine,  descries  across  the  fields  on  the  right, 
standing  in  its  fold  in  a  sheltered  hollow  or  nook  at  the  foot  of  the 
acclivity  of  Wilpshire  Moor,  a  good-sized  white  house,  which  even  at 
a  distance  appears  of  old  structure.  This  is  the  ancient  messuage  of 
the  Carr,  deriving  its  name  from  its  situation,  under  the  high  bank 
beside  a  moorland  stream — the  word  "carr"  signifying  a  piece  of  low 
boggy  ground.  The  house  is  reached  from  the  turnpike  by  a  short 
occupation  road.  Our  engraving  is  reduced  from  a  drawing,  after  a 
good  photograph  recently  taken  by  Mr.  Bibby,  with  the  assistance  of 
Mr.  Mosley.  It  represents  the  front  of  the  house,  which  has  a  westerly 
outlook,  and  is  separated  from  the  farm-yard  by  a  garden  plot.  As 
an  example  of  the  work  of  the  house-builders  of  the  district  some  three 
centuries  ago,  this  house  on  the  front  shown  is  intact,  and  therefore 
useful  for  illustration.  Its  structure  has  not  been  injured  or  altered  in 
any  feature  on  this  aspect,  but  in  the  rear  there  appears  to  have  been 
some  demolition  of  a  portion  of  the  original  extension  from  the  main 
block.  [Note  2.]  The  outer  walls  of  Carr  Hall  are  whitewashed,  as 
they  have  been  for  many  years,  since  I  have  known  the  place,  but  its 
clean  and  home-like  look  is  perhaps  rather  enhanced  by  its  coating  of 
lime-wash. 

Unlike  most  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  century  houses  of 
any  importance  in  North-East  Lancashire,  Carr  Hall,  Wilpshire,  has 


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no  lettered  stone  on  its  exterior  to  indicate  the  date  of  its  erection,  or, 
by  its  initials,  the  owner's  and  builder's  name.  But  by  comparison 
with  other  houses  in  the  district,  we  may  guess  the  age  of  this  approxi- 
mately. It  bears  a  close  resemblance,  for  instance,  to  Pleasington  Old 
Hall,  not  only  in  plan,  projection,  and  width  of  the  wings  and  pitch  of 
the  gables,  but  in  the  position  and  form  of  the  front  doorway,  and  in  the 
detail  of  the  small  mullioned  windows,  &c.  Compare  the  view  of  Carr 
Hall  above  with  the  engraving  of  Pleasington  Old  Hall  in  my  History 
of  Blackburn  (page  621).  Now  the  manor-house  of  Pleasington  was 
rebuilt  in  1587,  and  we  may  confidently  say  that  the  house  at  Carr  in 
Wilpshire  was  rebuilt  within  a  few  years  of  the  same  time.  Its  builder, 
therefore,  I  am  pretty  sure,  was  the  George  Talbot,  Gentleman,  who 
held  the  estate  through  the  reigns  of  Queen  Elizabeth  and  James  the 
First,  when  there  was  a  general  rebuilding  of  manor-houses,  and  other 
gentlemen's  and  yeomen's  houses,  not  only  in  Lancashire,  but  through- 
out England.  The  plan  of  Carr  Hall,  the  recessed  centre  and  wings 
projecting  at  either  end,  is  the  common  plan  of  Lancashire  houses  of 
the  period.  This  house  is  built  of  the  local  gritstone.  As  to  its  in- 
terior, the  rooms  are  spacious  and  have  an  air  of  olden  time  about 
them,  but  have  no  features  of  remarkable  interest  for  the  antiquary. 
The  hall  has  long  been  reduced  from  its  former  dignity  as  the  minor 
manor-house  of  a  proprietory  family,  to  the  condition  of  a  house  for 
the  tenant  farmer.  Several  years  ago,  when  along  with  two  or  three 
friends  on  a  summer  evening's  walk  in  the  neighbourhood,  we  looked  at 
the  old  house  at  Carr,  I  promised  some  day  to  write  an  article  about  it 
and  its  former  owners.  Below  I  now  give  the  results  of  my  research 
into  the  history  of  this  ancient  freehold. 

The  Talbots  of  Carr  in  Wilpshire  were  a  branch  of  the  Talbots, 
lords  of  Salesbury,  unless,  which  is  not  unlikely,  they  directly  sprung 
from  the  older  house  of  the  Talbots  of  Bashall,  at  a  date  earlier  than 
the  commencement  of  the  Hne  of  the  Salesbury  Talbots  with  William 
Talbot,  younger  son  of  Sir  Edmund,  of  Bashall.  [Note  3.]  The 
Talbots  settled  at  Carr,  although  their  landed  estate  was  always  small, 
bore  the  same  arms  as  the  eminent  famihes  seated  at  Salesbury  and 
Bashall,  and  were  certainly  of  the  same  origin.  The  first  who  has  been 
traced  is  Stephen  Talbot  of  Carr,  living  in  the  second  half  of  the 
fifteenth  century.  He  was  the  father  of  George  Talbot  of  Carr, 
living  in  the  16th  Henry  VII.  (a.  d.  1500).  His  sou- 
Nicholas  Talbot,  of  Carr,  Gent.,  was  in  possession  before  1523, 
when  he  paid  the  King's  Subsidy  for  his  lands  in  Wilpshire,  valued  at 
40  s.  a  year,  equal  to  more  than  as  many  pounds  of  present  money. 
Amongst  the  tenants  of  Whalley  Monastery,  at  the  date  of  its  sup- 
pression, in  1538,  was  Nicholas  Talbot,  who  held  of  the  Abbot  and 
Monks,  Snodworth  in  Billington,  paying  yearly  Is.  Snodworth  is  the 
upland  farm  adjacent  to  Wilpshire  Moor,  above  the  tenement  of  Carr 
which  Nicholas  Talbot  held  in  fee.  Nicholas  Talbot's  first  wife  was 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Lawrence  Shuttleworth,  of  Gawthorp,  Gent., 


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and  his  second  was  Anne,  first  daughter  and  one  heir  of  Evan  Brown 
of  Ribbleton,  Gent.  [Note  4.]  The  latter  survived  him,  and  married 
again,  to  Richard  Sherburne  of  Bayley,  Esq.  Besides  a  son  George 
by  his  second  wife,  Nicholas  Talbot  had  two  daughters,  Margaret  and 
Bridget,  by  his  first  wife.  [Note  5.]  He  died  in  the  first  year  of  Ed- 
ward VI.  In  the  Public  Record  OflSce  is  preserved  the  return  of  the 
Inquisition  taken  by  the  Escheator  after  his  death;  this  I  have  con- 
sulted, and  made  a  note  of  its  material  contents.  It  testifies  that 
Nicholas  Talbot,  Gent.,  had  died  seased  of  two  messuages,  40  (cus- 
tomary) acres  of  land,  16  acres  of  meadow,  and  18  acres  of  woodland 
in  Wilpshire  and  Salesbury;  also  of  20  acres  of  land  and  2  s.  rent  in 
Penhulton  [Pendleton] ;  and  of  9  acres  of  land  and  woodland  in  Billing- 
ton.  (The  103  acres  of  land  of  Lancashire  measure  would  be  equiva- 
lent to  nearly  200  statute  acres.)  Nicholas  Talbot  died  on  the  28th 
of  April  preceding  the  inquisition,  and  in  the  year  1547.  George 
Talbot  was  his  son  and  heir,  aged  5  years  and  11  months.     [Note  6.] 

George  Talbot,  the  son  and  heir  of  Nicholas,  being  a  child  under 
six  years,  he  would  be  in  the  wardship  of  the  King  until  he  was  of  age. 
Litigation  took  place  soon  after  between  Nicholas  Talbot's  daughters, 
and  the  husband  of  one  of  them,  and  his  widow.  The  case  is  found  in 
the  Calendar  of  Pleadings  in  the  Chancery  Court  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  in  the  11th  Edward  VI.  (1556-57).  [Note  7.]  The  plain- 
tiffs were  Robert  Aspeden  and  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Nicholas 
Talbot,  deceased,  and  Brydget  Talbot,  another  daughter  of  Nicholas, 
and  the  defendants  were.  Sir  Richard  Sherburne,  Knt.,  and  Anne  his 
wife,  one  of  the  executors  of  the  said  Nicholas  Talbot,  and  afterwards 
wife  of  Richard  Sherburne,  and  John  Singleton  and  George  Talbot, 
other  executors  of  the  deceased;  and  the  matter  was  a  disputed  title 
to  goods  and  chattels  of  the  deceased;  and  depositions  were  made 
respecting  the  custom  of  the  County  of  Lancaster,  in  regard  to  the 
distribution  of  the  goods  and  chattels  of  a  father  deceased  among  his 
children  not  being  his  heirs,  and  notwithstanding  his  Will.  The  place 
to  which  the  cause  related  was  situated  in  Wilpshire  township.  George 
Talbot  married,  at  Whalley  Church,  on  the  27th  of  June,  1569,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Roger  Nowell  of  Mearley,  Gent.  He  had  issue,  sons, 
Nicholas,  died  in  infancy,  buried  at  Whalley  Church,  15  April,  1571: 
John,  born  25  March,  1571 ;  Nicholas,  died  in  1595,  buried  at  Whalley, 
10  April;  and  William,  living  in  1602.  Also,  daughters,  Bridget,  bap- 
tized at  Whalley  Church,  2  November,  1575;  Mary,  baptized  19  March, 
1577;  Dorothy,  born  in  1579,  married,  in  1589,  at  the  age  of  10,  Ralph 
Rishton,  gent.,  of  Ponthalgh,  and  was  living  in  1625;  and  Frances,  born 
in  June,  1580.  [Note  8.]  George  Talbot,  Gent.,  was  an  early  Governor 
of  Blackburn  Grammar  School,  in  1586,  and  about  the  same  date  the 
School  Records  show  that  "George  Talbot,  of  the  Carre,  Gent.,  of  his 
owne  gifte  (gave  to  the  School)  the  some  of  ffortie  shilhnges,  whereof 
twentie  shilhnges  for  the  Carr  and  twentie  shiUinges  for  Wytton". 
This  item  is  proof  that  the  Talbots  of  Carr  then  held  lands  in  Witton. 


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One  would  scarcely  expect  to  find  the  epitaph  of  a  member  of  a 
family  of  small  proprietors  like  the  Talbots  under  notice,  living  in  a 
secluded  corner  of  Lancashire  as  Blackburn  parish  was  at  that  period, 
on  a  tombstone  in  one  of  the  ancient  London  Churches.  Yet  from  my 
copy  of  Cansick's  Epitaphs  of  Middlesex  I  get  the  following  inscrip- 
tion from  a  monument  in  Old  St.  Pancras  Church: — 

"Here  lieth  the  body  of  William  Talbot,  of  Carr,  in  the  County  of 
Lancaster,  Gent.  Who  died  the  second  day  of  May,  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  1660,  aged  60  years". 

This  William  Talbot  who  became  a  citizen  of  London  must  have  been 
William,  youngest  son  of  George  Talbot,  of  Carr,  though  I  should  have 
taken  him  to  be  a  few  years  older  than  60  in  1660.  There  may  be  an 
error  in  the  statement  of  age  on  the  monument.  But  that  William 
occurs,  as  a  boy  in  1602,  when  his  father  entered  him  at  Preston  Guild 
Merchant.  Having  no  prospect  of  inheriting  estate,  Wilham  Talbot 
probably  migrated  to  London  to  engage  in  trade.     [Note  9.] 

Here  I  may  mention  the  fact  that  the  Talbots  of  Carr  were  for  a  time, 
in  the  first  half  of  the  17th  century,  "Foreign  Burgesses"  of  the  Guild 
Merchant  of  Preston.  The  Guild  Rolls  of  1602  and  1622  contain  the 
subjoined  names: — 

Guild  Roll  of  1602 — Foreign  Burgesses. 
George  Talbot,  of  Carr  (in  Wilpshire),  sworn. 
John  Talbot,  his  son,  sworn. 
Wilham  Talbot,  his  (John's)  brother. 
George  Talbot,  son  of  the  above-named  John. 
Edward  Talbot,  his  (John's)  brother. 

Here  are  mentioned  members  of  three  generations  of  the  family  of 
the  Talbots  of  Carr  in  Blackburn  Parish,  living  in  1602,  namely,  George 
Talbot,  head  of  the  family;  his  two  sons,  John  and  WilHam;  and  his  two 
grandsons,  George  and  Edward,  sons  of  John  Talbot.  The  two  first- 
named  were  sworn  as  out-burgesses  of  the  Guild.  The  other  members, 
being  under  age  in  1602,  were  not  sworn,  but  were  enrolled  as  sons  of 
sworn  burgesses. 

Guild  Roll  of  1622 — Foreign  Burgesses. 
George  Talbot,  of  Carr,  Gentleman. 
John  Talbot,  his  son. 
Edward  Talbot,  his  (John's)  son. 
Thomas  Talbot,  his  (Edward's)  brother. 
John  Talbot,  his  (Thomas's)  brother. 

"George  Talbot,  Gent.",  was,  with  Lord  Danvers  and  others,  ap- 
pointed by  Sir  Thomas  Walmesley,  the  celebrated  Judge,  a  trustee  of 
his  estates  on  his  settlement  of  them  in  trust  in  1607.  He  was  a  Juror 
at  Blackburn  in  August,  1612.  After  having  been  inheritor  and 
owner  of  the  estate  for  the  remarkable  period  of  over  80  years,  George 
Talbot  died,  at  the  age  of  88  years,  in  1629.     [Note  10.] 


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John  Talbot,  gent.,  succeeded  him  at  the  age  of  58  years.  He  had 
married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Edward  Braddyll,  Esq.,  of  Portfield  in 
Whalley.  A  curiously  detailed  personal  record  of  these  Talbots  of 
Carr,  near  Blackburn,  and  of  the  Braddylls  of  Portfield,  near  Whalley, 
connected  at  that  period  with  the  Talbots  by  marriage,  has  come  to 
lightin  an  unexpected  direction.  It  consists  of  a  private  register  of 
births,  marriages,  and  deaths,  written  down  by  a  member  of  the  Talbots 
in  the  calendar  of  an  illuminated  Manuscript  Breviary  of  the  fifteenth 
century,  which  has  travelled  far  from  its  ancient  receptacle,  and  was 
recently  in  the  possession  of  John  Ingilby,  Esq.,  of  Austwick,  York- 
shire. A  transcript  of  these  "Talbot  and  Braddyll  Memoranda", 
communicated  by  John  Foster,  Esq.,  was  printed  in  1879,  in  Miscel- 
lanea Genealogica  et  Heraldica.  I  think  it  interesting  enough  to  insert 
here.  The  entries  are  a  mixture  of  old-style  English  and  Latin,  and 
the  dates  are  not  consecutive,  but  are  ranged  in  the  order  of  the  months. 

"1595.  Marcitis  [March]  11.  Anne  Talbotte  borne  this  day  in 
ye  morninge,  1595,  being  Tuesday,  and  dyed  when  shee  was  eleven 
weekes  oulde. 

1613.  Mardus  23:  EH:  [Elizabeth]  Talbott  borne  this  day,  beinge 
Wednesday,  1613,  beinge  foure  in  ye  morninge. 

1571.  Marcius  25.  Jo:  [John]  Talbott,  sonne  of  Go:  [George] 
Talbott,  borne  anno  1571,  about  11  of  ye  clocke  at  nupty  beinge  Sonday. 

1601.  Marcius  26.  Anne  Talbott  borne,  anno  1601,  about  five  of 
ye  clocke  in  ye  morninge. 

1602.  Aprilis  17.  Margarett  Talbott  borne,  anno  1602,  six  of  ye 
clocke  in  ye  morninge,  being  Saturday. 

1597.  Mains  2.  George  Talbott  was  borne,  anno  1597,  hora  quasi 
octava  vesyere^  beinge  Monday. 

1584.  Maius  10.  Circa  horam  ante  meredie  .  .  .  nota  fuit 
Joh'nafilia  Joh'is  Bradyll  an'o  d'no,  1584,  et  a*o  Eliz.  26,  10  Mail. 

1583.  Maius  20.  Natus  erat  Edwardus  filius  JoKis  Braddyll,  circa 
horam  quarto'  post  meridie\  1583. 

1603.  Maius  24.  Tho:  [Thomas]  Talbott  borne,  anno  1603,  aboute 
foure  of  ye  clocke  in  ye  morninge,  being  Tuesday. 

1595.  Julius  2.  Dorothy  Bradill  married  to  John  Talbott,  ann* 
1595. 

1602.    Julius  12.     This  day  Mrs.  Braddyll  was  borne,  1602. 

1599.  Julius  25.  Edwarde  Talbott  was  borne,  anno  1599,  post 
meridiem  hora  quasi  secunda,  beinge  Wednesdaye. 

1610.  Julius  25.  Frances  Talbott  ye  same  day  prima  hora  meridiem, 
anno  1610. 

1606.  Augustus  2.  Marie  Talbott  borne,  anno  1606  about  two  of 
ye  clocke  in  the  morninge,  being  Saterday. 

1599.  September  17.  John  Braddill  borne,  an'o  dom'  1599,  being 
Monday. 

1612.  September  11.  Briget  Talbott  borne,  anno  1612  about  three 
of  ye  clocke  in  ye  morninge,  being  Thursday. 


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1572.    October  3.    Dorothy,  daughter  of  Ed :  Bradyll,  borne  1572. 

1584.  October  6.  Anne  Braddyll  marriage,  being  Monday,  (jlo 
dorrC  1584.  [Ann  Braddyll  (sister  of  Dorothy,  wife  of  John  Talbot  of 
Carr),  married  Thomas  Southworth,  Gent.] 

1607.  December  13.  John  Talbott,  sonne  of  John,  was  borne,  anno 
1607,  about  three  of  ye  clocke  in  the  morninge  in  the  greate  Froste, 
beinge  Sunday". 

John  Talbot,  by  Dorothy  his  wife,  had  altogether  thirteen  children. 
[Note  11.]  They  were  married  at  Whalley  Church,  on  the  2nd  of 
July,  1595.  The  issue  included,  sons,  George,  born  2  May,  1597,  died 
young:  Edward,  born  25  July,  1599;  Thomas,  born  24  May,  1603; 
William,  baptized  19  May,  1605;  John,  born  13  Dec.,  1607;  George, 
baptized  4  Dec,  1608;  and  daughters,  Ann,  born  11  March,  1595-6, 
died  in  infancy;  a  second  Ann,  born  26  March,  1601;  Margaret,  born 
17  April,  1602;  Marie,  born  2  August,  1606;  Frances,  born  25  July, 
1610;  Bridget,  born  24  Sept.,  1612;  Elizabeth,  born  23  March,  1613-14. 
Mistress  Talbot,  wife  of  John  Talbot,  died  in  June,  1634,  and  John 
Talbot  himself  did  not  live  very  long  after  her.  [Note  12.]  He  had 
been  elected  a  Governor  of  Blackburn  Grammar  School  in  December, 
1628.     [Note  13.] 

Edward  Talbot,  Gent.,  was  the  next  possessor,  and  he  was  in 
tenure  of  the  estate  at  the  commencement  of  the  great  Civil  War  in 
1642.  He  married,  about  1620-1625,  Mabel,  daughter  of  Lawrence 
Carleton,  Gent.  The  only  issue  of  whom  information  is  obtainable  is 
his  two  sons,  George  and  John.  [Note  14.]  His  religious  attachment 
as  a  Roman  Cathohc  would  impel  him  to  take  sides  with  King  Charles 
the  First  in  the  conflict  with  Parliament;  and,  besides,  his  neighbour 
and  remote  kinsman.  Sir  John  Talbot,  of  Salesbury  Hall,  who  was  the 
most  energetic  and  influential  partizan  of  the  King  in  Blackburn 
Parish,  doubtless  called  upon  Mr.  Edward  Talbot  to  join  him,  and  as  he 
was  then  only  forty-two  years  old,  it  is  likely  that  he  was  one  of  the 
numerous  body  of  local  Royahsts  who  armed  themselves  and  mustered 
for  warfare  under  Sir  John  Talbot's  command.  If  so,  he  shared  the 
discomfiture  of  that  Knight,  when  the  "Roundheads"  of  Blackburn  and 
Manchester  in  force  attacked  him  at  Salesbury  Hall,  drove  him  out, 
and  occupied  and  plundered  that  mansion.  The  misfortunes  of  the 
war  in  which  he  was  on  the  losing  side  may  have  shortened  Edward 
Talbot's  life  if  he  was  not  slain  or  wounded  in  fight,  for  it  appears  that 
he  died  not  later  than  1651.  The  Blackburn  Parish  Registers  for  the 
years  1637  to  1651  were  destroyed,  so  the  exact  date  of  the  deaths  of 
parishioners  during  those  years  cannot  be  ascertained.  Mr.  Edward 
Talbot's  wife,  who  had  been  a  widow  some  years,  died  about  1660. 

Edward's  younger  son  occurs  as  "John  Talbot  of  Wilpshire",  and 
he  farmed,  I  conjecture,  land  in  that  township  in  the  vicinity  of  his 
father's  and  elder  brother's  property  at  Carr.  He  had  sons,  Richard 
born  in  1666,  baptized  at  Blackburn  Church,  Nov.  4,  1666;  John,  born 
in  1668,  baptized  Nov.  3,  died  in  1708;  Thomas,  living  in  1708;  and 


Joseph  and  Benjamin,  twins,  born  in  1677.  Joseph  died  in  infancy, 
buried  at  Blackburn  Church,  January  18,  1678-9.  John  Talbot,  the 
father,  died  in  1680,  and  leaving  no  Will,  administration  was  granted 
with  an  inventory  of  goods  of  John  Talbot  of  Wilpshire,  in  that  year  at 
Chester. 

George  Talbot  entered  upon  possession  in  succession  to  his  father 
about  the  year  1651,  and  he  was  soon  called  upon  by  the  Government 
of  the  victorious  Parliamentarian  party  to  pay  the  penalty  of  his 
father's  and  his  own  adherence  to  the  cause  of  the  decapitated  King. 
The  freehold  estate  of  Carr  was  placed  under  sequestration,  and,  like 
many  others,  George  Talbot  was  branded  as  a  "dehnquent"  towards 
the  ruling  powers.  But  he  was  previously  unable  to  pay  his  debts,  and 
two  creditors  who  had  obtained  a  judgment  against  him  at  the  assizes 
petitioned  the  Commissioners  for  sequestration  of  Royalists'  estates  to 
have  their  debt  paid  out  of  the  rents  of  the  lands  then  received  by  the 
Commission.  Below  is  the  substance  of  the  official  records  relating 
to  this  application,  dated  1653  and  1654: — 
**  Claimants   on   the   Estate  of  George  Talbot,  of  Carr,  Co.  Lancaster 

19  July,  1653.  George  Tolnson,  of  Witton,  Co.  Lancaster,  and 
Lettice  his  wife,  beg  allowance  of  a  judgment  for  £103  3  s.  obtained  at 
Lancaster  Assizes,  11  March,  1652,  on  the  lands  of  James  Ryley  and 
George  Talbot,  which  are  now  secured  for  the  alleged  delinquency  of 
Talbot.    Petitioners  beg  to  receive  the  rents  on  security. 

19  July.     The  petition  was  referred  to  the  County  Committee. 

25  April,  1654.  The  petition  was  renewed,  George  Talbot  not  having 
been  adjudged  a  delinquent.  George  Talbot  was  ordered  to  show 
cause  why  the  petition  should  not  be  granted. 

20  June,  1654.  George  and  Lettice  Tolnson  beg  leave  to  proceed  on 
the  extent,  and  enjoy  the  lands  till  paid  their  debt  and  damages. 
George  Talbot  failing  to  show  cause,  the  Tolnsons  were  allowed  to  pro- 
ceed on  their  extent  till  satisfied". 

It  may  be  supposed  that  during  the  years  from  1652  to  1660,  George 
Talbot,  his  rents  being  thus  impounded  to  defray  his  debts  as  well  as 
the  heavy  fines  exacted  by  the  authorities,  was  hard  put  to  it  to  main- 
tain his  family.  He  was  at  the  time  a  young  man  from  about  thirty 
to  thirty-five  years  old.  He  had  previously  married  Anne  Ryley, 
daughter,  I  think,  of  James  Ryley,  one  of  the  Ryleys  of  Church  Kirk, 
who  is  named  in  the  document  quoted  above,  as  having  had  his  lands 
seized  along  with  those  of  George  Talbot  for  the  "alleged  delinquency" 
of  the  latter.     [Note  15.] 

The  children  of  George  Talbot  by  Anne  his  wife  were,  sons,  Edward 
and  George;  and  daughters,  Mary  and  Catherine.  In  1660,  when  the 
Stuarts  were  restored,  George  Talbot  was  reheved  from  the  pains  and 
penalties  to  which  he  had  been  subjected  in  preceding  years  as  a  "King's 
man",  and  his  estate  was  restored  to  him.  [Note  16.]  But  before  that 
event  he  had  been  necessitated  to  raise  money  by  a  pecuHar  legal 
process,  and  this  incumbrance  was  not  got  rid  of  until  more  than 


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twenty  years  afterwards.  Here,  again,  old  legal  records  disclose  cer- 
tain facts  concerning  the  affairs  of  this  local  family  of  small  landowners. 
In  the  Court  of  Chancery,  in  Trinity  Term,  1683,  a  cause  was  heard 
of  which  there  is  an  account  in  Vernon's  Reports,  and  in  which  George 
Talbot,  of  Carr,  was  plaintiff,  and  Edward  Braddyll,  of  Portfield,  was 
defendant.  "The  plaintiff,  being  seised  in  possession  of  lands  of  £15 
per  annum,  and  in  reversion,  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  of  other 
lands  of  about  £17  per  annum  (which  estate  was  subject  to  incum- 
brances), did  by  deed  and  fine  in  March,  1657,  in  consideration  of 
£320,  demise  those  lands  to  Mr.  Braddyll,  the  defendant,  for  99  years, 
at  5  s.  per  annum  rent,  upon  condition  that  if  the  plaintiff  or  his  heirs 
should  pay  the  defendant  £380,  the  25th  of  March,  which  should  be 
in  the  year  1688,  then  the  corruzees  should  stand  seased  to  the  use  of 
the  plaintiff  and  his  heirs;  and  the  plaintiff  consented  for  the  defend- 
ant's enjoyment  accordingly.  And  now  in  1682,  twenty-five  years 
after  the  conveyance,  the  plaintiff  brings  his  Bill  to  be  permitted  to 
redeem  the  premises,  and  to  have  an  account  of  profits  from  the  date 
of  the  deed,  alleging  that  though  the  deed  was  in  that  form,  yet  it  was, 
nevertheless,  agreed  between  him  and  the  defendant  that  it  should  be 
a  mortgage,  and  redeemable  at  any  time  upon  payment  of  £320  and 
interest;  and  though  there  was  no  proof  of  any  other  agreement  than 
the  deed,  and  that  there  was  a  bond  to  perform  the  covenants  of  the 
deed,  and  although  it  appeared  that  the  estate  consisted  much  in  Old 
Buildings  and  a  Mill,  and  that  the  defendant  had  laid  out  about  £100 
in  repairs,  yet  in  regard  the  plaintiff's  Mother  died  within  three  years 
after  the  deed,  whereby  the  revenue  exceeded  the  interest  of  the  money; 
the  Lord  Keeper,  notwithstanding  there  was  a  contingency  at  the  time 
of  the  deed,  thought  this  an  unreasonable  bargain,  and  did  decree  an 
Account  of  the  profits  ab  originey  and  a  redemption  on  payment  of 
what  the  profits  fell  short  of  the  £320  and  interest,  and  appointed  the 
same  to  be  paid  at  a  day  certain,  and  not  to  expect  'till  1688  according 
to  the  condition  of  the  Deed". 

The  disturbed  times  in  which  this  representative  lived,  and  which 
covered  the  periods  of  a  long  civil  war  and  three  revolutions  in  England, 
and  the  diflSculties  he  encountered  in  his  younger  days  did  not  prevent 
George  Talbot  from  surviving  to  an  advanced  age.  [Note  17.]  The 
ancient  freehold  which  his  ancestors  had  held  should  have  been  in  his 
tenure  between  fifty  and  sixty  years;  and  he  seems  to  have  resided  In 
the  house  at  Carr  in  Wilpshire,  even  whilst  he  did  not  receive  the  rents 
of  considerable  portions  of  his  land.  [Note  18.]  His  Will,  executed 
shortly  before  his  death,  is  dated  December  18th,  708.  In  it  testator 
is  described  as  "George  Talbot,  of  Carr  Hall,  Gentleman".  He  ap- 
points his  wife,  Anne  Talbot,  sole  executrix.  He  mentions  his  son, 
George  Talbot;  his  daughter,  Katherine  Eden,  and  her  children, 
Robert  and  Mary  Eden;  another  married  daughter,  Mary  Osbaldeston, 
and  her  five  children,  James,  Mary,  Dorothy,  Margery,  and  Anne 
Osbaldeston.     [Note  19.]     Testator  also  names  his  nephews,  John  and 


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Thomas  Talbot,  sons  of  John.  The  Will  was  proved  as  Chester  in 
1709,  and  some  singular  depositions  attached  to  it  suggest  that  the 
Will  had  been  the  cause  of  quarrel  or  difiFerence  amongst  the  members  of 
the  family,  and  had  been  wilfully  torn  by  one  of  the  daughters,  Kather- 
ine  Eden.  Mrs.  Anne  Talbot,  the  widow,  executed  the  Will.  By 
her  the  Carr  estate  was  sold,  in  the  year  1709,  to  the  trustees  of  Bar- 
tholomew Walmesley,  Esq.,  of  Dunkenhalgh,  and  it  has  remained  from 
then  till  now  a  possession  of  the  Walmesleys  and  their  successors  the 
Petres.  The  estate  is  contiguous  to  the  manor  estate  of  the  Petres  in 
Billington  township.  Mistress  Anne  Talbot  lived  at  Carr,  however, 
until  her  death  in  1716,  for  in  her  Will  her  description  is  "Anne  Talbot, 
of  Carr,  in  Wilpshire,  Widow". 

An  old  document  which  I  have  seen  supplies  some  information  as  to 
the  children  and  descendants  of  George  Talbot,  the  last  of  the  family 
who  owned  Carr  freehold.  The  eldest  son,  Edward  Talbot,  became  a 
monk  in  one  of  the  orders  of  the  Church  of  Rome  and  went  to  Italy, 
where  he  is  said  to  have  died.  The  other  son,  George  Talbot,  named  by 
his  father  in  his  Will,  afterwards  emigrated  to  New  England,  and  settled 
in  America.  [Note  20.]  Of  the  daughters,  Mary  Talbot  married 
twice,  and  had  issue  mentioned  below.  The  other  daughter,  Katherine, 
married  a  son  of  John  Eden,  of  West  Auckland,  and  had  a  son,  Robert 
Eden,  and  a  daughter,  Mary. 

The  last  descendants  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  who  are  known,  having 
lived  in  this  district,  were  the  children  and  grandchildren  of  George 
Talbot's  eldest  daughter,  Mary.  [Note  21.]  She  was  born  about  the 
year  1658.  She  married,  first,  James  Parkinson,  of  Stander  Bar,  and 
had  to  him  a  son,  James  Parkinson,  who  died  at  the  age  of  20,  and 
daughters,  Mary,  Dorothy  (died  young),  Margery,  and  Anne.  After 
becoming  a  widow,  the  mother  married  Robert  Osbaldeston.  This 
marriage  took  place  at  Blackburn  Parish  Church: — "1705.  August  3rd. 
Robert  Osbaldeston,  of  Osbaldeston,  yeoman,  and  Mary  Parkinson, 
of  Wilpshire,  widow".  By  this  marriage  two  children  appear — George 
Osbaldeston,  who  died  at  the  age  of  19  years;  and  "Anne  daughter  of 
Robert  Osbaldeston,  of  Wilpshire,  yeoman",  baptized  at  Blackburn 
Church,  August  11,  1706.  The  daughter,  Anne  Osbaldeston,  became 
the  wife  of  Robert  Bennett,  of  Ribchester.  The  mother  was  the  latest 
survivor  by  many  years  of  the  children  of  George  Talbot,  of  Carr.  She 
died  in  1763,  a  centenarian,  aged  105  years. 

Her  daughter,  Mary  Parkinson,  married,  in  1714,  Thomas  Darwen, 
of  Ribchester,  yeoman  (a  brother  of  Henry  Darwen,  of  Balderstone,  yeo- 
man). Issue,  Henry  Darwen,  who  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  was 
sometime  a  tenant  of  Carr  Hall;  he  removed  to  Langley,  in  Essex; 
John  Darwen,  of  Ribchester,  died  in  1792;  Margaret  Darwen,  married 
Lawrence  Peel;  Juliana,  married,  in  1740,  Mr.  Charles  Baron,  and 
had  a  son  Charles:  and,  secondly,  married  Dr.  William  Ritchie,  of 
Aberdeen;  and  Dorothy  Darwen,  married,  in  1762,  Mr.  Daniel  Robin- 
son, of  Manchester,  and  had  numerous  issue. 


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NOTES  ON  THE  FOREGOING  ARTICLE 
By  J.  Gardner  Bartlett 

Note  1.  The  engraving  mentioned  in  the  text  has  been  slightly 
enlarged  to  make  the  photogravure  opposite  this  page,  showing  the 
appearance  of  the  building  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Abram's  article  in  1893 
and  since  then. 

Note  2.  The  front  is  slightly  altered  from  its  original  appearance  in 
1580,  in  that  after  1710  two  of  the  five  sections  of  the  first  story  window 
in  the  left  wing  were  blocked  up,  and  a  new  two  section  window  was 
cut  through  higher  up  in  the  front  of  this  wing.     (See  ante,  p.  31.) 

Note  3.  The  Talbots  of  Carr  derived  from  the  Talbots  of  Bashall 
through  a  branch  at  Slaidburn  and  not  through  the  branch  at  Salesbury, 
securing  Carr  Hall  and  property  in  Tadcaster  by  marriage  about  1410 
with  a  Cunliffe  heiress.     (See  ante,  pp.  11-13.) 

Note  4.  Nicholas  Talbot  married  first  Anne  or  Agnes,  not  Elizabeth, 
Shuttleworth.     (See  ante,  pp.  18  and  26.) 

Note  5.  Margaret  was  the  only  child  of  Nicholas  Talbot  by  his 
first  wife  Anne  or  Agnes  Shuttleworth;  Bridget  and  George  were  by  his 
second  wife  Anne  Brown.     (See  ante,  p.  23.) 

Note  6.  The  age  given  in  the  original  document  is  one  year  and 
eleven  months,  not  five  years  and  eleven  months  as  here  printed.  (See 
ante,  p.  23.) 

Note  7.  This  suit  took  place  in  3  Edward  VI.  (1549)  and  not  in  11 
Edward  VI.    (See  ante,  pp.  24-25.) 

Note  8.  He  also  had  three  other  children  not  named  in  the  text, 
viz.,  Thomas,  bapt.  20  Jan.  1572/3,  EHzabeth,  bapt.  28  May  1574, 
and  Catherine.  He  also  had  a  second  wife  Anne  Holden,  to  whom  he 
was  married  3  Aug.  1587.     (See  ante,  pp.  33-34.) 

Note  9.  This  WiUiam  Talbot  was  not  engaged  in  trade,  but  was  a 
Catholic  priest.     (See  ante,  p.  35.) 

Note  10.  George  Talbot  was  born  about  Oct.  1545  and  was  buried 
4  June  1628,  aged  nearly  eighty  three  years,  not  eighty-nine.  (See 
ante,  pp.  23  and  31.) 

Note  11.  John  Talbot  had  only  eleven  children.  WiUiam,  bap- 
tized 19  May  1605,  and  George,  baptized  4  Dec.  1608,  named  in  the 
text  and  recorded  at  Blackburn,  do  not  belong  in  this  family;  the  former 
(William)  was  son  of  another  John  Talbot;  while  the  latter  (George) 
was  son  of  a  Thomas  Talbot  and  was  buried  at  Blackburn  3  Feb. 
1636/7. 

Note  12.  She  was  buried  at  Blackburn  27  June  1634.  (See  ante, 
p.  88.) 

Note  13.  He  was  living  in  1642  and  probably  died  during  the  Civil 
War.     (See  ante,  p.  37.) 

Note  14.  He  also  had  a  daughter  Dorothy,  born  about  1628,  who 
married  first,  3  June  1654,  ElHs  Duckworth  and  secondly  in  1671, 
Richard  Parker.     (See  ante,  pp.  44,  45,  and  61.) 


106 

Note  15.  This  marriage  to  Anne  Ryley  took  place  before  August 
1651;  she  was  buried  at  Whalley  20  Aug.  1660.     George  Talbot  later 

married  a  second  wife  Anne  ,  who  survived  him.     (See  ante, 

pp.  48  and  75.) 

Note  16.  Although  nominally  it  may  be  true  that  Talbot's  estate 
was  restored  to  him  on  the  return  of  the  monarchy  in  1660,  yet  prac- 
tically he  was  out  of  possession  from  1657  to  1685,  as  he  deeded  his 
whole  estate  to  Edward  Braddyll  in  1657  and  did  not  get  it  back  until 
1685  by  means  of  a  chancery  suit.     (See  ante,  p.  46.) 

Note  17.  He  was  born  in  1624  and  died  in  1709,  aged  about  eighty- 
five  years.     (See  ante,  pp.  45  and  71.) 

Note  18.  He  did  not  reside  at  Carr  Hall  after  his  mother's  death 
in  1660  until  1685  when  he  recovered  the  property  by  law  suit;  but  he 
thereafter  lived  there  until  his  death  in  1709.     (See  ante,  p.  46.) 

Note  19.  Four  of  these  children  were  by  her  first  husband  James 
Parkinson;  only  Anne  was  by  her  second  husband  Robert  Osbaldeston. 
(See  ante,  pp.  77-78.) 

Note  20.  Of  course  this  word  "afterwards"  was  not  in  the  "old 
document"  Mr.  Abram  is  here  quoting.  It  is  perfectly  certain  that  he 
never  saw  the  whole  will  of  George  Talbot,  but  had  only  a  brief  abstract 
of  it,  giving  merely  the  names  of  the  persons  in  it;  he  thus  was  unaware 
of  the  pecuhar  way  the  son  George  was  referred  to  in  the  will  which 
proves  he  had  gone  from  home  long  before  the  date  of  the  will.  Mr. 
Abram  was  accustomed  to  send  to  a  correspondent  in  Chester  for  brief 
abstracts  of  batches  of  wills  there  of  families  which  he  was  compiling, 
as  appears  from  his  papers  shown  by  his  son  to  the  writer.  (See  ante, 
pp.  69,  78-79.) 

A  brief  pedigree  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  (as  ancestors  of  the  Darwens 
of  Ribchester,  Co.  Lancaster),  appears  on  pages  251-2  of  the  "History 
of  the  Parish  of  Ribchester,"  published  in  1890  by  Tom  C.  Smith,  Esq., 
then  of  Longridge  near  Blackburn.  After  tracing  down  the  line  from 
Stephen  Talbot  of  Carr,  this  pedigree  gives  the  following  account  of 
the  last  George  Talbot  of  Carr  and  his  descendants: 

"George  Talbot,  of  Carr,  gent.,  married  Ann,  daughter  of 

Riley,  of  Church,  and  had  sons,  Edward,  died  in  Italy;  and  George, 
a  doctor  in  New  England;  and  daughters,  Mary;  and  Katherine,  married 
John  Eden,  of  West  Auckland.  He  died  about  1708.  Mary  Talbot 
married,  firstly,  John  Parkinson  of  Standerbar,  and  had  issue,  James, 
Mary,  Dorothy,  and  Marjorie.  Secondly,  she  married  Robert  Osbal- 
deston. Mary  Parkinson,  granddaughter  of  George  Talbot,  married 
in  1714  Thomas  Darwen,  of  Ribchester."    Etc. 

When  working  on  the  Talbot  pedigree  in  England  in  1905,  the 
writer  called  upon  and  conferred  with  Mr.  Smith,  who  was  then  living 
at  Harrogate  in  Yorkshire.  Mr.  Smith  stated  that  all  the  information 
he  ever  had  of  the  Talbots  of  Carr  was  given  to  him  by  Mr.  Abram; 
and  he  showed  the  writer  the  manuscript  notes  of  his  Talbot  pedigree 
which  merely  state  that  George  Talbot  Jun.,  "deceased"  in  New 


107 

England;  the  notes  have  nothing  of  his  being  "a  doctor"  there.  Mr. 
Smith  stated  the  printed  words  "a  doctor"  were  evidently  typographi- 
cal errors  for  the  word  "deceased,"  an  error  he  overlooked  in  proof- 
reading while  under  severe  illness. 

Note  21.    Mary  Talbot  was  the  younger  of  the  two  daughters  of 
George  Talbot,  not  the  elder.    (See  ante,  pp.  76-77.) 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS 


Abbam 
G.  P.    95 

Mr., = William  Alex- 
ander   31  74-78  80  92 
94  96  105  106 
William  Alexander    73 
95 

AmSWORTH 

Elizabeth    89 
Lawrence    89 
Allen 
George    84 
Mary    84 

ASHTON  or  ASHETON 

Mr.     95 

Anne    38  39  89 
Isabella    89 
Lucy    89 
Ralph    27  89 
Richard    89 

ASPDEN  or  ASPEDEN 

Margaret    19-20 

23-27  30 

Richard     19  23 

Robert     19  20  23-25 

98 

Athebton 

John    91 

Mary    91 

Atkinson 

Anne    50 

Thomas    50 

Aylett 


Baine 


9 


Bailey  or  Bayly 

EHzabeth    33 
John    33 


Baker 

Capt.    67 

Baliol 

Edward    86 

Bannister 

Anne    90 

Isabel     90 

Richard    90 

Wilfred    90 

Babker 

John    36  41 

Barlow 

Alexander    91 

Frances    91 

Margaret    91 

Peter     91 

Baron 

Charles    74  77  104 

Julian  or  Juliana   74 

77  104 

Barrell 

Anna    84 

Bartlett 

J.  Gardner    96  105 

Bassett 

Alina    85 

Allan    85 

Bastian 

WiUiam    75 

Beauchamp  de 

Sarah    86 

William    86 

Bellair 

Elizabeth     10 

James    10 


Bennett 
Anne    74  78  104 
Robert    74  78  104 
WiUiam    78 
Bereville  de 
Matilda    8 
Robert    8 
Bibby 
Mr.     96 
Black  Pbince 
Edward    10  86 
Blamyb 

14 

Blore 

Catherine    76 
George    68  76 
John    75  76  78 
Blount 
Father    33 
Bodge 

82 

BOHUN   DE 

Eleanor    86 
Elizabeth    86 
Humphrey    86 
Bolton 
Adam    93 
Boteler 
Anne    86 
William    86 

BOUCHIER 

Richard    72 
Bradhull  DE  or 
Braddyll 
Alice    38 
Anne    38  39  101 
Bernard    39 
Cuthbert    39 


110 


Bradhull  de  or 
Braddyll  (cotU.) 
Dorothy     17  19  27 
37-40  83  100  101 
Edward    17  19  27 
36-39  41  44  46-49 
52-56  58-60  62-64  100 
101  103  106 
Elizabeth    39 
Ellen    39 
Emote    39 
Geoffrey    38 
GUbert    39 
Henry    38 
Jane    39 
Jennett    39 
Johanna    100 
John    38  39  100 
Katherine    39  48  56 
62 

Lettice    39  46  51 
Margaret    38  39  63 
Margery    39 
Ralph    39 
Richard    39 
Robert    38 
Roger    38 
Stephen    39 
Thomas    38  39  53  55 
57  58  67  68 
Walter    38 
William    39 
Brierly 
WiUiam    57 
Brockholes  D£  or 
Brockhole 
John    10 
Thomas    68 
Brougham  de  or 
Brougham 
Dorothy    42 
Gilbert    43 
Henry    42 
Isabel    43 
Brown  or  Browne 
Anne     17  18  23  98  105 
Evan  or  Ewan    17  18 
23  25  98 


Buck 

Margaret    34 

BULMER 

Stephen    85 
Burgh 
Thomas    7 
Burke 

[ =John 

Bernard]    2  3  4  87 
Butler 
Eleanor    86 
James    86 
Petronilla    86 
Byron 
John    10 
Margery    10 

Cansick 

35,99 

Capen 
Jerusha    84 
Jonathan    84 
Carleton  de  or 
Carleton 
Adam    42 
Agnes    43 
AUce    43 
Ambrose    41  43 
Andrew    41  43  50 
Anne    43 
Baldwin    42 
Barbara    43 
Dorothy    42 
Eleanor    43 
Geoffrey    42 
George    43 
Gerard    43 
Gilbert    42 
Guy    43  44 
Helen    42 
Henry    42 
Isabel    43 
Jane    42 
John    42  43 
Launcelot    18  19  41 
43  44 
Laurence    17  18 


Lawrence    101 

Mabel    17  18  39 

41-45  101 

Mabilla    19 

Margaret    43 

Nichola    43 

Oduard    42 

Percival  A.    42 

Peter    43 

Roger    43  44 

Sarah    42 

Thomas    42-44 

William    42-44 

Carlisle 

Mabel    43 

Charles  I. 

19  32  35  40  41  44  45 

48  58  63  101 

Charles  H. 

44  46  48  56  58  63  92 

Charnock 

Eleanor    34 

Clarke  or  Clark 

Anne    45 

Hannah    83 

Lambert    45 

Margery    83 

William    83 

Clayton 

Jennett    44  94 

John    94 

Margaret    92 

Thomas    92 

William    25  72 

Cleveland 

Duchess  of     1  2 

Clitheroe  or 

Cliderou  de 

Isabel    22 

Isabella    88 

Richard    88 

Cockayne 

G.  E.    87 

Cockroft  or 

Cawcroft 

Thomas    36  40  52  57 

63 

WiUiam    57  6S 


Ill 


Cole 
Elizabeth    45 

COMTN 

Elizabeth    86 
John    86 
Cooke 
Joanna    21 

COTTBELL 

Judge    67 

Craven 

Richard    51 

Crombock 

Jennett    39 

John    36  40  47  48 

Cromwell 

OUver    53 

Cross 

John    94 

Mary    94 

Cundeclyve  de  or 

CUNLIFFE 

Adam    13 
Alice    13 
Ellen    12-15  26 
Margaret    13 
Robert     13  59-61 
Roger    12  13 

CUTTINQ 

Dorothy    83 
James    83 

Danvers 

Lord    99 

Darwen 

Anne    77 

Dorothy     74  77  104 

Henry    74  77  104 

John      74  77  104 

Julian  or  Juliana    74 

77  104 

Margaret    74  77  104 

Mary    74  77  104  106 

Thomas    74  77  104 

106 

Dawbury 

Alice    43 

George    43 


Derby 

Earl  of    6  41  46  49-51 

58  61 

COMTE  d'Eu 

Gilbert    1 
Robert    1 

DiNKLEY  DE 

Alice    38 

DOBSON 

Richard    68 
Duckworth 
AHce    93 
Anne    44  45 
Dorothy    44  45  105 
Ellis    44  45  105 
Jane    44  45 
Katherine    44  45 

DUGDALE 

[ = William]    2 

17-19  42 

DUTTON 

Anna  12  13 
Giles    12 
Hugh    9 
Joane    9 
Duxbury 
Anne    44  45 
Thomas    44  45 

Earle 

Erasmus    55 

Eden 

Barbara    76 

Catherine  or  Katharine 

69-72  74  76  80  81  103 

104  106 

Jane    75  76 

John    74  76  104  106 

Mary    70  74  76  103 

104 

Robert    70  74  76  103 

104 

Edmundson 

Richard    64 

Edward  I. 

8  9 

Edward  II. 

0 


Edward  III. 
9-11  16 
Edward  IV. 

16  18  19  89 
Edward  VI. 

17  22  24  98  105 
Elizabeth 
27-30  97 
Elliot 
Nichola    43 
Ellis 

67 

Henry    2 
Ellison 
John    94 
Mary    94 
Evererd 
Robert    20 

Ferrers  de 
Ermintrude    6 
Robert    6 
Walcheline    6 
Fielding 
OUver    68 
Robert    62 
FrrzwiLLiAM 

42 

Flaitel 
Basilia    3 
Gerard    3 
Foley 


33-35 


Forest 
Robert  25 
Foster 
10 


Jennett  39 
John  100 

FOXCROPT 

Francis  81 
Frizell 

Hannah  83 

William  83 

Gaskyll  or  GasgiiiL 
Julyan    32 


112 


Gat 

David    84 
Hannah    84 
Gerrabd 
Mr.     75 
Gey 
Stephen    67 

GiFFARD 

Walter    2 
Gold 

Francis     83 
Mary    80  83 
Rose    83 

GOURNAY   DE 

BasiUa    3 

Gerard     3 

Hugh    3  85 

Greenfield 

Lettice    46  48  51 

Thomas     36  40  41  46 

47  51 

Greffyn 

David     14 

Jane     14 

Gregson 

Matthew    70 

Griffith  ap 

Gwendohne    86 

Rhys    86 

Grimshaw 

R.    67 

Hamerton  de 
Alice    13 
Stephen     13 
Hargreaves 
Jane    57 
Harrington 
Margery    39 
WilUam    39 
Hatch 
Alfce     57  64 
Havison 
William     20 
Hayhurst  see  Hurst 
Henry  I. 
3  85 


Henry  U. 

4  5  85 
Henry  HI. 

6-8  86 
Henry  IV. 
11 

Henry  V. 
3  11 
Henry  VI. 

5  11-13  16  21  87  89 
Henry  VH. 

17  20  97 
Henry  VIH. 
21  22  26 
Hesketh 
Edward    62 
Heydock 
Lawrence     25 
Hickman 
WiUiam    7 
HiNDLE  or  Hyndley 
Charlton    93 
Christopher     93 
George  52  61 
John    25  26 
Hoar 
Daniel     81  83 

HODGKINSON 

Margery     76 
WiUiam    76  78 

HOLDEN 

Andrew    57 

Anne    33  34  68  105 

James    68 

John    68 

Thomas    36  41 

Holland 

Joane     9 

Robert    9 

Holme 

John     19 

Randle     18-20    23    32 

40  41  45 

HOPTON 

Elizabeth     13 
Robert     13 

HOPWOOD 

Anne    89 


Edmund    89 

HORNE 

14 

Hothersall 
Anne     90 
John    90 
Houghton  or  de 
Hoghton 
Adam    37 
Elizabeth    93 
Henry     11  12 
Richard    93 

HULTON 

John    72 
Hume 

3  4 

Hurst  or  Hayhurst 
Edward    61 
Richard    36  41  52  55 
56  60-62 

Ingilby 
John    37  100 

James  I. 
32  91  97 
John 
5  6  8 

Kenyon 
Lord    36  67 
Roger    36  40 
King 
John    26 

KiRKBY 

Eleanor    43 
Roger    43 

Lacy  de 
Edmund     8 
Gilbert    3  4 
Henry     4 
Hugh    6 
John     7 
Lancaster  de 
Jane    42 
Roger    42 


113 


La  WE 

Middleton 

Ormerod 

Gilbert    39  47  48  52 

Edmund     32 

9 

55-58 

MlTTON 

Osbaldeston 

Katherine    39  56-58 

John    49 

Alexander    90  92 

60-62 

MOLINEUX 

Alice    90 

Thomas    36  39  56  57  y^^^^     ^7 

Anne     70  74  75  78  92 

Lawson 

Montague  de 

103  104  106 

IsabeUa    94 

Alina    85 
Dreux    85 
Moore 

Dorothy     103 

Layton 
Anne    43 

George     74  75  78  104 
James     103 

Thomas    43 

John    36  40  47-49 

Leigh  de 

Mary     90 

Margery     103 

Gilbert    9 

MOSLEY 

Mary    70  73-75  77 

Lever  de 

Mr.     96 

79  103  104  106 

Adam     13 

MOSTON  DE 

Robert    74  76  78  104 

Margaret     13 

John    43 

106 

Levesey  or  Livesey 

Margaret    43 

AHce    89 

Mowbray  de 

Paris 

Anne     14 

Roger    4 

Matthew    4 

Edmund     14 

Parker 

Giles    14  21  89 

Nevill 

Alexander    45  70 

James     13 

Maud    87 

Dorothy    41  44  61 

John    14 

Thomas    87 

John    45  55  70  75 

Nicholas    14 

Newton 

Richard    44  61  105 

WilHam     13 

Adam    42 

Parkinson 

LonsdatjF.  or  Loyns- 

Sarah     42 

Anne     92  104 

dale 

NOBLET 

Dorothy     70  74  77  104 

106 

James     65-67  70  74 

John    41  50 

Roger    68 

Margaret    50 

No  WELL  or  NOELL 

76-78  104  106 

Thomas    49  50  62 

Adam    32 

John     106 

LOWTHER 

Alexander     33 

Margery     70  74-76  78 

Barbara    43 

Anne    17  19  27  32  33  104  106 

Hugh    43 

94  98 

Mary    70  73-77  79 

LUNT 

Catherine     33 

104  106 

John    67 

Christopher    32  33 

Robert     92 

Lyster 

Eli/Hbeth    32  33  92 

Paslowe 

Helene    32 

Grace    33 

Elizabeth    32  33 

Helene    32  33 

Thomas    33 

Mages 

Henry     32 

Peele 

Edward    32 

Jane     33 

Laurence    74  77  104 

Maid  of  Orleans 

John     33  92 

Margaret     74  77  104 

87 

Julyan     32 

Robert     77 

Matilda 

Leonard     94 

William     77 

1   A 

Mary     33 

Petke 

O    It 

Mercer 

Roger    17  19  32  33 

Catherine     73 

Alexander    44  45 

53  98 

George  Ernest  Augus- 

Katherine   44  45 

William    32 

tus  Henry     73 

114 


Petre  (cont.) 

Rishton  or  DE 

Margaret    40 

George  William    73 

RiSHTON 

Richard    23-25  37  40 

Robert    73 

Anne    34  89 

98 

Robert  Edward    73 

Catherine    34 

Shorrock 

Robert  James    73 

Dorothy    34  98 

WiUiam    25 

Philip 

Edward    34  36  41  51  Shuttleworth 

King    82 

52 

Agnes    18  23  26  105 

PiGOTT 

Eleanor    34 

Anne    105 

George    91  92 

Elizabeth    57 

Burton    56  62  64 

PiNCERNI 

Frances    34 

Elizabeth    23  97  105 

Hugh    6 

James    34 

Lawrence    18  23   26 

Plantagenet 

John    34  57 

97 

Elizabeth    86 

Margaret    34 

Singleton 

Geoffrey    3 

Ralph    34  98 

Alan    89 

Henry    4 

Richard    89 

EUen    89 

POLLABD 

Robert    10 

John    24  25  89  91  98 

Emote    39 

Roger    34 

Margery    89 

William    39 

William     34 

Mary    91 

Pond 

Ritchie  or  Richey 

Slater 

Thankfull    84 

Julian  or  Juliana    74 

Edward    62 

Pui'FER 

77  104 

Slinger 

Eleazer    83 

WiUiam     74  77  104 

Tempest    53 

Elizabeth    83  84 

Robinson 

Smith 

Pye 

Daniel    74  77  104 

Experience    84 

George    77 

Dorothy     74  77  104 

!   Joseph    84 

WiUiam    77 

ROUSAU 

Tom  C,  or  Mr. 

EKzabeth    84 

106-107 

Radclifpe 

Samuel    84 

Smollett 

Joane    9 

Ryley 

3 

Johanna    89 

Anne    39  74-76  78  102  Snawesell 

John    9  89 

106 

WiUiam     19 

Richard    25 

James    47-49  5152 

SOUTHWORTH 

Remington 

75  102  106 

Anne    91  101 

Robert    32 

Robert    75 

Elizabeth    92 

Richard  I. 

John    91 

5  85 

Salisbury 

Mary    91 

Richard  II. 

Marquis  of    30 

Thomas    92  101 

n 

Sharlock 

Sparks 

Richard  111. 

John    83 

Henry    83 

89 
Riggenhat-Tj  de 

Sharples 

Stainton  de 

James    63 
John    52 

Geoffrey    42 
Helen    42 

Matilda    11 

Robert    19 

Stark 

Peter     11 

Sherburne 

Arnie    23  24  25  37 

1  7 

RiGMADEN 

rr     1 

Starkey 

Anabella   11 

90  98 

Ellen    39 

Avelina    11 

Hugh    37  90 

Stephen 

Peter    11 

John    70  71 

34 

115 


Strange  lb 
Ankaret    87 
John    87 
Stratton 
Richard    81  83 
Stuteville  de 
Joanna    6  7 
Robert    6  7 

SUDELL 

Alice    94 
John    64  94 
Mary    44  94 
Symonstone  de 
Margaret    38 

Talbot  Talbott 
Talbut  Talebot 
Taulbert  Tawlbut 
Agnes    4  18  23  26  105 
Alexander    88  91 
Alice    6  89  90  93  94 
Alina    85 
Anabilla    11 
Ankaret    87 
Anna    12  13 
Anne    13  17-19  23-25 
27  31-34  37  39  40  50 
53-55  69-78  86  89  90 
92  94  98  100-102 
104-106 
Avelina    11 
Beatrice    90 
Benjamin    102 
Bridget    23  24  33  37 
40  98  100  101  105 
Catherine  or  Katharine 
34  65  71  74  76 
102-106 

Christopher    88 
Daniel    84 

Dorothy    17  19  27  34 
37-11  44  80  83  88  92 
98  100  101  105 
Ebenezer    84 
Edmund    8-14  16  88 
97 


Edward    17  19  29  36 
37  39-48  57  63  74-76 
80  83  99-102  104  106 
Elizabeth    10    13    33 
37  40  84  86  89  90  92- 
94  97  98  100  101  105 
EUen    11-14  26  89 
Ermintrude    6 
Euphemia    7 
Experience    84 
Frances    34  37  40  91 
98  100  101 
Geoffrey    2-5 
George    14-21     23-34 
36    37     39-41     44-58 
61-84  90  91  93-95  97- 
102  104-107 
Gerard    6  7  11 
Gilbert    14  85-87 
Giles    8  11-14  16  21 
Hannah    81  83  84 
Henry     11 

Hugh    1  3  85  88  89 
Isabel    90 

Isabella    21  88  89  94 
Jane    14  90 
Jennett    13  14  44  94 
Jerusha    84 
Joane    9 
Joanna    6  21  89 
John    5-7  9-11  13  14 
16  17  19  22  27  29  30 
33  35-37  39-41  44-48 
53  63  70  87-94  98-105 
Joseph    102 
Katharine,  see 
Catherine 
Lawrence    88 
Le  Sire    12  85 
Lucy    89 

Mabel  17  36  39-45 
48  50  52  55  56  59-62 
64  101 
Mabilla  19 
Margaret  13  14  19 
20  23  24  37  40  89-92 
98  100  101    105 


Margery    10  88  89 

Martha    8 

Mary     10  33  37  40  44 

65-67  71  73-76  79  80 

83  84  90-94  98   100- 

104  106  107 

Matilda    8  11 

Maud    87 

Michael    90 

Myles    89 

Newton    79 

Nicholas    13  14  17  18 

21-26  33  35  37  90  97 

98  105 

Peter     11-14  16  20  21 

26  79-84 

Petronilla    86 

Ralph    89 

Richard    2  3  6  7  10- 

12  14-16  18  20  21  33 

85-90  93  94  101 

Robert    5-8  21  30  90 

91  93  94 

Roger    5  89 

Samuel    94 

Sarah    84  86 

Simon    5 

Stephen     16-21  73  97 

106 

Sybil    7 

Sylvester    5  6 

Thomas    7-11    16    21 

29  33  34  37  40  44  70 

89-94  99-101  104  105 

William     1  4-6  11  13 

14  18  20  29  34  35  88 

89  91  97-99  101  105 

Taylor 

Anne    64 

George    64 

Theopilus    70  71 

Tempest 

Mary     10 

Richard    10 

Titterington 

Edward    63 


116 


Todd 
Mr.     45 

TOLNSON  or  TOWLNSON 

George    47-49    51    52 
59  60  62  102 
Lettice     48  51  102 

TOWNELEY 

Christopher    3  8  94 
Isabella    89 
Richard    89 

TURELL 

Anna    84 
Daniel    84 
Mary    84 
Turner 
John    32 

TWENGE   DE 

Thomas    11 

Valence  de 
WiUiam    7 

VlTALIS 

Ordericus     3 
VosE 
Thomas    84 

Waddington 
Richard    53  55 
Wadell 
John    83 
Mary    83 
Walkden 
Thomas    50 
Wall 
WilUam    51 


Walmesley 
Bartholomew    31  73 
104 

Catherine    73 
Elizabeth    91  92 
Richard     75  92 
Thomas    28  99 
Ward 
Henry     92 
Richard    25 
Waring 
Jane     76 
Leonard    62 
Richard    76 
Warren 

88 

Dorothy    92 
Edward     92 
John     65 
WiUiam    5 
West 

George    68 
Westby 
Margaret    92 
Thomas    92 
Whalley 
Edward    25 
Whitchurch 
James    45 
White 

Benjamin    84 
Sarah    84 
Whittingham 
Alexander    32 
Thomas    32 


WlBERGH 

Agnes    43 
Thomas    43 
Wilford 
Dorothy     92 
James     92 
Wilkinson 
Thomas    64 
William  the 
Conqueror 
1  85  87 

WiNCKLEY 

Thomas    36  41 

WiTHINGTON 

Elizabeth    84 
Philip     84 
ThankfuU    84 

WORSLEY 

Ehzabeth    23 

WORTHINGTON 


Richard    68 
Wyke 

Elizabeth    90 
Humphrey    90 

Yate 

Tristram    26 
York 

Richard,  Duke  of 
12  16 


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